Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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clearing

UK /ˈklɪəɹɪŋ/ · US /ˈklɪɹɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of clear

Forms clearings

  1. noun The act or process of making or becoming clear.
  2. noun An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
  3. noun An open space in the fog etc.
  4. noun (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
  5. noun (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
  6. noun (UK, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
  7. noun (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.

Synonyms

glade clearance clarification

Etymology

From clear + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of making clear.
  2. noun A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “clearing”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “clearing” (best matches first).

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