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

“detained” is a form of

detain

/dɪˈteɪn/ verb

Forms detains detaining detained

  1. verb (transitive) To keep something from proceeding or coming to completion; to delay.
  2. verb (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
  3. verb (transitive, archaic) To keep back or from; to withhold.
  4. verb (transitive, law enforcement) To put someone under custody.
  5. verb (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

Synonyms

delay hinder impede retard hold back confine stay hold up

Etymology

From Old French detenir. Doublet of détente. Cognate with Italian detenere, Portuguese deter, Romanian deține, and Spanish detener.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To keep back or from; to withhold.
  2. verb To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
  3. noun Detention. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [F. détenir, L. detinere, detentum; de + tenere to hold. See Tenable.]

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

Sanskrit

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