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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strait

/stɹeɪt/ adjective, noun, verb, adverb, proper noun

Forms straiter straitest straits straiting straited streit streight

  1. adjective (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
  2. adjective (archaic) Righteous, strict. “to follow the strait and narrow”
  3. adjective (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Difficult; distressful.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
  7. noun (geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water. “the Strait of Gibraltar”
  8. noun A narrow pass, passage or street.
  9. noun A neck of land; an isthmus.
  10. noun (often in the plural) A difficult position. “to be in dire straits”
  11. verb (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
  12. verb (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.
  13. adverb (obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sound pass straits

Etymology

From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective A variant of Straight. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Narrow; not broad.
  3. adjective Tight; close; closely fitting. Shak.
  4. adverb Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F. étroit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf. Strict.]

Etymology [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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