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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tar

UK /tɑː/ · US /tɑɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of tara

Forms tars tarring tarred

  1. noun Coal tar.
  2. noun (uncountable) (often typeset "tar" in USA) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  3. noun (slang, dated) A sailor (because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes).
  4. verb (transitive) To coat with tar.
  5. verb (transitive) To besmirch. “The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.”
  6. noun (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
  7. noun (computing) A file produced by such a program.
  8. verb (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
  9. noun A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
  10. noun A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
  11. proper noun A village in Hungary.

Synonyms

Jack Tar jacktar jack tarpaulin pitch mariner seaman Jack-tar old salt seafarer gob sea dog

Antonyms

untar

Etymology

From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, from *dóru (“tree”).
See also Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer; also Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dărvó, “tree”). More at tree.

Abbreviation of tape archive.

Borrowed from Persian تار (târ). Doublet of tantra.

Borrowed from Arabic طار (ṭār).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.
  2. noun A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
  3. verb To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. To tar and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.

Etymology [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.]

Etymology [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer, theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tjära, Dan. tiære, and to E. tree. *63. See Tree.]

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

Sanskrit

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