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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

vent

/vɛnt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms vents venting vented

  1. noun An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. “the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould”
  2. noun A small aperture.
  3. noun An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
  4. noun A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
  5. noun The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
  6. noun A slit in the seam of a garment.
  7. noun The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
  8. noun In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. verb (intransitive) To allow gases to escape. “The stove vents to the outside.”
  10. verb (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
  11. verb (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent. “Exhaust is vented to the outside.”
  12. verb (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion. “He vents his anger violently.”
  13. verb To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  14. verb (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
  15. verb (intransitive) Of an otter: to emerge from the water to breathe in air.
  16. verb (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
  17. noun Ventriloquism.
  18. verb To sell; to vend.
  19. noun (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
  20. verb (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

Synonyms

outlet touch hole let off steam venthole vent-hole blowhole volcano release ventilate give vent air out air

Etymology

Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.

Clipping of ventriloquism.

From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).

From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Sale; opportunity to sell; market. [Obs.] Shelton.
  2. verb To sell; to vend. [Obs.]
  3. noun A baiting place; an inn. [Obs.]
  4. verb To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [F. vente, fr. L. vendere, -itum, to sell; perh. confused with E. vent an opening. See Vend.]

Etymology [Sp. venta a poor inn, sale, market. See Vent sale.]

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

Sanskrit

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