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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cancellation

/kænsəˈleɪʃən/ noun

Forms cancellations cancelation

  1. noun The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
  2. noun (mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
  3. noun (philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
  4. noun (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
  5. noun (anatomy) The property of being cancellate.

Synonyms

annulment revocation stoppage termination abolition abrogation deauthentication devalidation invalidation nullification renunciation vitiation

Etymology

From Latin cancellātiō, from cancellō + -tiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
  2. noun The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.

Etymology [L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation.]

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