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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utility

/juːˈtɪlɪti/ noun, adjective

Forms utilities

  1. noun The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
  2. noun Something that is useful.
  3. noun (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
  4. noun (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
  5. noun (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage. “The complex includes the usual utilities (gas and electricity) and amenities like wifi and a gym (toilets with toiletries).”
  6. noun (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
  7. noun (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining. “a graphics utility; a music utility”
  8. noun (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software. “I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.”
  9. adjective Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
  10. adjective (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
  11. adjective Functional rather than attractive.

Synonyms

service value usefulness advantages benefit return merits virtue note public utility public utility company public-service corporation utility program service program utility-grade substitute

Antonyms

disutility inutility

Etymology

From Middle English utilite, from Old French utilite, utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ūtilitās, from uti (“to use”). By surface analysis, utile + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
  2. noun Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value.

Etymology [OE. utilite, F. utilité, L. utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See Utile.]

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

Sanskrit

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