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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dry

/ˈdɹaɪ̯/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms drier dryer driest dryest drys dries drying dried drieth DRYed drie

  1. adjective Free from or lacking moisture. “This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?”
  2. adjective Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk. “This well is as dry as that cow.”
  3. adjective (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
  4. adjective (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids. “Dry alcohol is 200 proof.”
  5. adjective (figurative) Athirst, eager.
  6. adjective Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages. “Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.”
  7. adjective (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned. “You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.”
  8. adjective Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
  9. noun The process by which something is dried. “This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.”
  10. noun (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  11. noun An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it. “Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.”
  12. noun (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
  13. noun (Australia) An area of waterless country.
  14. noun Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
  15. noun (UK, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
  16. verb (intransitive) To lose moisture. “The clothes dried on the line.”
  17. verb (transitive) To remove moisture from. “Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.”
  18. verb (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
  19. verb (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
  20. adjective (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.

Synonyms

sober anhydrous arid bone dry droughty dry as a bone exsuccous parched sare sear sere unmoist waterless dehydrate desiccate dry up prohibitionist dry out ironic ironical wry juiceless teetotal

Antonyms

live living wet sweet phlegmy

Etymology

Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; --said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
  2. adjective Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
  3. verb To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.
  4. verb To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

Etymology [OE. dru, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dröge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. Drought, Drouth, 3d Drug.]

Etymology [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a.]

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

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