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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dive

/daɪv/ verb, noun

Also a form of diva

Forms dives diving dived dove doven diven divest divedst diveth

  1. verb (intransitive) To swim under water. “He dove in the water to save her.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
  3. verb (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. “to dive into home plate”
  4. verb (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
  5. verb (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
  6. verb (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm. “She dove right in and started making improvements.”
  7. verb (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  8. verb (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
  9. noun A jump or plunge into water. “the dive of a hawk after prey”
  10. noun A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
  11. noun A downward swooping motion.
  12. noun A swim under water.
  13. noun A decline.
  14. noun (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
  15. noun (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
  16. noun (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

Synonyms

honkytonk diving nose dive nosedive plunge plunk

Etymology

From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.

From Italian dive; see diva.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
  2. verb Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.
  3. verb To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.]
  4. verb To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.]

Etymology [OE. diven, duven, AS. d to sink, v. t., fr. d, v. i.; akin to Icel. d, G. taufen, E. dip, deep, and perh. to dove, n. Cf. Dip.]

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

Sanskrit

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