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

“ditches” is a form of

ditch

/dɪt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms ditches ditching ditched the Ditch

  1. noun A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. “Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.”
  2. noun (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
  3. verb (transitive) To discard or abandon; to stop associating with (someone). “Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.”
  4. verb (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. “When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.”
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. “The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To dig ditches. “Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching.”
  7. verb (transitive) To dig ditches around. “The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.”
  8. verb (transitive) To throw into a ditch. “The engine was ditched and turned on its side.”
  9. proper noun (Anglo-Indian, slang, derogatory, obsolete) The city of Calcutta.

Synonyms

abandon desert discard dump jettison leave lose forsake quit shed strand chuck trench

Antonyms

stand by stick by

Etymology

From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.

From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.

In reference to the Maratha Ditch.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
  2. noun Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
  3. verb To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
  4. verb To surround with a ditch. Shak.

Etymology [OE. dich, orig. the same word as dik. See Dike.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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