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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safety

/ˈseɪfti/ noun, verb

Forms safeties safetying safetied

  1. noun The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty. “If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.”
  2. noun (mechanics) A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation. “Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.”
  3. noun Preservation from escape; close custody.
  4. noun (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team. “He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.”
  5. noun (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort. “The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.”
  6. noun (baseball) A safety squeeze.
  7. noun (snooker) A safety shot or sequence of such shots. “That was a poor safety from Higgins.”
  8. noun (dated) A safety bicycle.
  9. verb (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
  10. verb to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing

Synonyms

refuge guard safety device base hit condom rubber safe prophylactic

Antonyms

danger

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English savete, from Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem, from Latin salvus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
  2. noun Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from libility to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc. Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off. Beau. & Fl.

Etymology [Cf. F. sauveté.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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