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

rail

/ɹeɪ(ə)l/ noun, verb

Forms rails railing railed rayle

  1. noun A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
  2. noun The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
  3. noun A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation. “We travelled to the seaside by rail.”
  4. noun (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected. “ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.”
  5. noun A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
  6. noun (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
  7. noun (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page. “We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.”
  8. noun (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
  9. verb (intransitive) To travel by railway.
  10. verb (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
  11. verb (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing. “They ought to rail off the playground.”
  12. verb (transitive) To range in a line.
  13. verb (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
  14. verb (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
  15. noun Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
  16. verb To complain violently (against, about).
  17. noun (obsolete) An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
  18. noun (obsolete) Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
  19. verb (obsolete, of a liquid) To gush; to flow.
  20. verb (obsolete, of wind) To blow.

Synonyms

stile stringer fulminate inveigh rail out railing track rails runway rail in rail off train vilify revile vituperate

Etymology

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle. Compare Medieval Latin rallus. Named from its harsh cry, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere (“to scrape”).

From Middle French railler.

From Middle English rail, reil, from Old English hræġl (“garment, dress, robe”). Cognate with Old Frisian hreil, reil, Old Saxon hregil, Old High German hregil (“clothing, garment, dress”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
  2. verb To flow forth; to roll out; to course. [Obs.]
  3. noun A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.
  4. noun A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

Etymology [OE. reil, reýel, AS. hrægel, hrægl a garment; akin to OHG. hregil, OFries. hreil.]

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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

Sanskrit

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