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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coherence

UK /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/ · US /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/ noun

Forms coherences cohærence

  1. noun The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency. “His arguments lacked coherence.”
  2. noun The quality of forming a unified whole.
  3. noun A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
  4. noun (physics, of waves) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  5. noun (linguistics, translation studies) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

Synonyms

coherency cohesion cohesiveness

Antonyms

incoherence

Etymology

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
  2. noun Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness.

Etymology [L. cohaerentia: cf. F. cohérence.]

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

Sanskrit

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