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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additive

/ˈæd.ɪ.tɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms additives

  1. adjective (mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
  2. adjective (mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition. “Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#92;vecv#43;M#92;vecw#61;M(#92;vecv#43;#92;vecw).”
  3. adjective (group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition. “It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.”
  4. adjective (chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
  5. adjective (genetics) Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
  6. noun A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance. “Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.”
  7. noun (grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.

Synonyms

temper linear

Antonyms

subtractive

Etymology

From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Proper to be added; positive; --opposed to subtractive.

Etymology [L. additivus.]

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

Sanskrit

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