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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closer

UK /ˈkləʊ.sə/ · US /ˈkloʊ.sɚ/ adverb, noun

Also a form of close

Forms closers

  1. adverb Within a shorter distance. “Come closer, my dear.”
  2. noun Someone or something that closes. “In our organization, the VP of Sales usually acts as the closer.”
  3. noun Someone or something that concludes. “The DJ chose a fantastic track as his closer at the end of the night.”
  4. noun (sales) Synonym of close (“the point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy”).
  5. noun The last stone in a horizontal course, if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
  6. noun (baseball) A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three outs of the game. “They brought their closer in for the ninth.”
  7. noun (horse racing) A horse that performs best toward the end of a race.

Synonyms

close finisher nearer nigher

Etymology

From Middle English closere, equivalent to close (verb) + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.
  2. noun A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.

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

Sanskrit

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