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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leash

/liːʃ/ noun, verb

Forms leashes leashing leashed

  1. noun A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  2. noun (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.
  3. noun (obsolete, collective) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, deer/bucks, and hares).
  4. noun (obsolete, collective) A group of three.
  5. noun A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  6. noun (surfing) A leg rope.
  7. noun (prosody) A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
  8. verb To fasten or secure with a leash.
  9. verb (figuratively) to curb, restrain

Synonyms

lead trio see Thesaurus:trio tether three 3 III threesome tierce troika triad trine trinity ternary ternion triplet tercet terzetto trey deuce-ace collar rope

Antonyms

unleash

Etymology

From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. Shak.
  2. noun A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
  3. verb To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

Etymology [OE. lese, lees, leece, OF. lesse, F. laisse, LL.laxa, fr. L. laxus loose. See Lax.]

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

Sanskrit

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