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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socket

UK /ˈsɒkɪt/ · US /ˈsɑkɪt/ noun, verb

Forms sockets socketing socketed

  1. noun (electricity) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
  2. noun (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
  3. noun The socket head for a socket wrench.
  4. noun A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
  5. noun The hollow of a candlestick.
  6. noun (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
  7. noun (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
  8. noun A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
  9. verb (transitive) To place or fit in a socket.

Synonyms

jack outlet receptacle wall socket network socket

Etymology

From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout", from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
  2. noun Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.

Etymology [OE. soket, a dim. through OF. fr. L. soccus. See Sock a covering for the foot.]

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

Sanskrit

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