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

“feints” is a form of

feint

/feɪnt/ noun, verb, adjective

Also a form of faint

Forms feints feinting feinted

  1. noun (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
  2. noun (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
  3. noun (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
  4. verb To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
  5. verb (rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
  6. verb (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.
  7. adjective (boxing, fencing, also often military) Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
  8. adjective (obsolete) Feigned, counterfeit, fake.
  9. adjective Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.

Synonyms

juke

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from French feinte (“dummy, feint”), from feindre (“to fake, feign”), from Old French feindre, faindre, from Latin fingere, the present active infinitive of fingō (“to alter the truth to deceive, dissemble, feign, pretend; to fashion, form, shape”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
* English feign, fiction, figment
* Occitan fencha, fenha
* Old Spanish finta (modern Spanish finta (“dummy, feint”))

Borrowed from French feint, the past participle of feindre (“to fake, feign”): see etymology 1.

A variant of faint (“barely perceptible; not bright, loud, or sharp”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.]
  2. noun That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  3. noun A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; --said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
  4. verb To make a feint, or mock attack.

Etymology [F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign. See Feign.]

Etymology [F. feinte, fr. feint. See Feint, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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