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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deduction

/dɪˈdʌkʃən/ noun

Forms deductions

  1. noun That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
  2. noun A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off. “standard deduction”
  3. noun (law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
  4. noun A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out. “He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.”
  5. noun The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason “Through his powers of deduction, he realized that the plan would never work.”

Synonyms

extract reduction cut decrement dip drop extraction fall lowering shrinkage ergotism illation verdict award censure choice opinion conclusion decision determination tax write-off tax deduction discount entailment implication deductive reasoning synthesis subtraction price reduction

Antonyms

induction

Etymology

From Middle French déduction, from Latin deductio.
Equivalent to deduct + -ion or deduce + -tion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Act or process of deducing or inferring.
  2. noun Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.

Etymology [L. deductio: cf. F. déduction.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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