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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climax

/ˈklaɪ.mæks/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms climaxes climaces climaxing climaxed

  1. noun (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
  2. noun (obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.
  3. noun (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
  4. noun (now often) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:
  5. noun (rhetoric, imprecise) The final term of a rhetorical climax.
  6. noun (ecology, botany) A relatively stable community of organisms, resulting from ecological succession, a successful adaptation to a relatively stable environment.
  7. noun (euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
  8. verb (ambitransitive) To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
  9. verb (transitive) To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
  10. adjective (ecology) Being a climax species or climax community of organisms; able to remain essentially unchanged (in terms of the portion of the species in its area it constitutes) as long as its site remains unchanged.
  11. proper noun A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community and mining location in Lake County, Colorado.
  13. proper noun A small town in Decatur County, Georgia.
  14. proper noun A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
  16. proper noun A village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
  17. proper noun A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
  18. proper noun A hamlet in Greene County, New York.

Synonyms

incrementum payoff old-growth mature ecosystem auxesis catacosmesis apex flood tide culmination orgasm sexual climax coming culminate

Antonyms

catacosmesis

Etymology

From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.
  2. noun A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" --a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

Etymology [L., from Gr. Ladder, Lean, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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