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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concentration

UK /ˌkɒn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms concentrations

  1. noun The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
  2. noun The direction of attention to a specific object.
  3. noun The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
  4. noun The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
  5. noun A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
  6. noun The proportion of a substance in a whole.
  7. noun (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
  8. noun The matching game pelmanism.

Synonyms

density denseness tightness compactness engrossment absorption immersion assiduity assiduousness

Antonyms

distribution dilution

Etymology

From New Latin concentrātiō (“(1550) action or an act of coming together at a single place; (1659) extraction or separation of one or more of the metals present in an alloy”). Compare French concentration, Spanish concentración, Italian concentrazione (last quarter of 16th century). Equivalent to concentrate + -ion. By surface analysis, con- + centre + -ate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
  2. noun The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.

Etymology [Cf. F. concentration.]

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

Sanskrit

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