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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context

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

Forms contexts contexting contexted

  1. noun The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence. “—In what context did your attack on him happen? —We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.”
  2. noun (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning. “Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.”
  3. noun (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
  4. noun (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
  5. noun (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
  6. noun (programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
  7. verb (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
  8. adjective (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

Synonyms

frame framework background backdrop setting purlieus milieu linguistic context context of use circumstance

Antonyms

isolation

Etymology

From Latin context(us).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.]
  2. noun The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
  3. verb To knit or bind together; to unite closely. [Obs.] Feltham.

Etymology [L. contextus, p.p. of contexere to weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text.]

Etymology [L. contextus; cf. F. contexte .]

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

Sanskrit

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