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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fleece

/flɪjs/ noun, verb

Forms fleeces fleecing fleeced

  1. noun Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
  2. noun (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
  3. noun (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
  4. noun (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
  5. noun (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
  6. noun Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  7. noun The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
  8. verb (transitive, informal) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
  9. verb (transitive) To cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). “During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.”
  10. verb (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.

Synonyms

swindle shear sheepskin wool overcharge soak surcharge gazump plume pluck rob hook

Etymology

From Middle English fles, flees, flese, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
  2. noun Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  3. verb To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
  4. verb To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

Etymology [OE. flees, AS. fleós; akin to D. flies, vlies .]

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

Sanskrit

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