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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mortar

UK /ˈmɔːtə/ · US /ˈmoɹtɚ/ noun, verb

Forms mortars mortaring mortared morter

  1. noun (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
  2. noun (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
  3. noun (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
  4. noun (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
  5. noun (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
  6. verb (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
  7. verb (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
  8. verb To fire a mortar (weapon).
  9. verb To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon). “The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.”

Synonyms

mortar and pestle pestle and mortar howitzer trench mortar

Etymology

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
  2. noun A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45º, and even higher; - -so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar.
  3. noun A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; --used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. Mortar bed, a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed.
  4. verb To plaster or make fast with mortar.

Etymology [OE. morter, AS. mortere, L. mortarium: cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d Mortar, Martel, Morter.]

Etymology [OE. mortier, F. mortier, L. mortarium mortar, a large basin or trough in which mortar is made, a mortar (in sense 1, above). See 1st Mortar.]

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

Sanskrit

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