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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tangle

/ˈteɪ̯ŋɡəl/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms tangles tangling tangled

  1. verb (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
  2. verb (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined. “Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.”
  3. verb (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. “Don't tangle with someone three times your size.”
  4. verb (transitive) To catch and hold.
  5. noun A tangled twisted mass.
  6. noun A complicated or confused state or condition. “I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.”
  7. noun An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
  8. noun (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
  9. noun (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
  10. noun A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
  11. noun Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
  12. noun (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
  13. noun (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
  14. proper noun A barangay of Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines.

Synonyms

entangle knot mat snarl dishevel tousle argue conflict dispute fight ensnare entrap enmesh ensnarl foul implicate imply involve ravel mess maze embroil sweep sweep up drag drag in

Antonyms

untangle unsnarl

Etymology

From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang. See also Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
  2. verb To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
  3. verb To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
  4. noun Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.

Etymology [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]

Etymology [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed.]

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