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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“detaches” is a form of

detach

/dɪˈtæt͡ʃ/ verb

Forms detaches detaching detached

  1. verb (transitive) To take apart from; to take off. “to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment”
  2. verb (transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use. “to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment”
  3. verb (intransitive) To come off something. “Now that the zipper has detached, my winter coat won't keep me very warm.”

Synonyms

disengage allocate fall off unfasten deadhere earmark come off come away

Antonyms

attach

Etymology

From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; --the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
  2. verb To separate for a special object or use; --used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.
  3. verb To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

Etymology [F. détacher (cf. It. distaccare, staccare); pref. dé (L. dis) + the root found also in E. attach. See Attach, and cf. Staccato.]

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

Sanskrit

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