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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tied

/taɪd/ adjective

Also a form of tie

  1. adjective Closely associated or connected. “As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another.”
  2. adjective Restricted.
  3. adjective Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
  4. adjective (liquor trade) Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
  5. adjective (sports or games) That resulted in a tie.
  6. adjective Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
  7. adjective (archaeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
  8. adjective (philately) A cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.

Synonyms

trussed fastened laced even level

Antonyms

untied

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “tied”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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