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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concave

UK /ˈkɒn.keɪv/ · US /ˈkɑn.keɪv/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms concaves concaving concaved

  1. adjective Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
  2. adjective (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
  3. adjective (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
  4. adjective Hollow; empty.
  5. noun A concave surface or curve.
  6. noun The vault of the sky.
  7. noun One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
  8. noun (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
  9. noun (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
  10. noun (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
  11. noun (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
  12. verb To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.

Synonyms

concavous

Antonyms

convex

Etymology

From Middle English concave, from Old French concave, from Latin concavus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; --said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
  2. adjective Hollow; void of contents. [R.]
  3. noun A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
  4. noun A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

Etymology [L. concavus; con- + cavus hollow: cf. F. concave. See Cave a hollow.]

Etymology [L. concavum.]

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

Sanskrit

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