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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complement

UK /ˈkɒmpləmənt/ · US /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ noun, verb

Forms complements complementing complemented

  1. noun The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
  2. noun (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
  3. noun (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
  4. noun Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
  5. noun (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
  6. noun (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
  7. noun (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
  8. noun (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). “The complement of blue is orange.”
  9. verb To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole. “We believe your addition will complement the team.”
  10. verb To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole. “The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other, giving a very rich taste in combination.”
  11. verb To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
  12. noun Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.

Synonyms

alexin tie in full complement accompaniment

Etymology

From Middle English complement, from Latin complēmentum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“to fill up; to complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment. The verb is from the noun.

See compliment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
  2. noun That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
  3. verb To supply a lack; to supplement. [R.]
  4. verb To compliment. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Etymology [L. complementun: cf. F. complément. See Complete, v. t., and cf. Compliment.]

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

Sanskrit

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