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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coherent

UK /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/ · US /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/ adjective

Forms cohærent

  1. adjective Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
  2. adjective Orderly, logical and consistent.
  3. adjective Aesthetically ordered.
  4. adjective Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  5. adjective (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  6. adjective (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  7. adjective (mathematics, sheaf theory, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  8. adjective (topology, of a topology 𝒯 on a set T with respect to a family C_a of subsets of T) In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology.

Synonyms

consistent logical ordered lucid tenacious

Antonyms

disjointed incoherent

Etymology

From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid. Arbuthnot.
  2. adjective Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

Etymology [L. cohaerens, p. pr. See Cohere.]

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

Sanskrit

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