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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delta

/ˈdɛltə/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms deltas deltaing deltaed

  1. noun The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
  2. noun A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water. “Nile Delta”
  3. noun (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference". “ΔV - "delta vee"(change in velocity, used in rocketry and orbital mechanics)”
  4. noun (finance) The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
  5. noun (chemistry) A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
  6. noun (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file. “When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.”
  7. noun (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon. “This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.”
  8. noun (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
  9. verb (cryptography) To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.
  10. verb (computing) To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).
  11. proper noun A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital: Asaba. Largest city: Warri.
  12. proper noun A municipality in Central Macedonia, Greece.
  13. proper noun A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  14. proper noun A municipality of British Columbia, Canada.
  15. proper noun A village in Ontario, Canada.
  16. proper noun A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Clay County, Alabama.
  17. proper noun A city and home rule municipality, the county seat of Delta County, Colorado.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Saline County, Illinois.
  19. noun The Delta variant of COVID-19.

Synonyms

garrison

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.
  2. noun One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

Etymology [Gr. Delta of the Nile.]

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