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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density

UK /ˈdɛn.sɪ.ti/ · US /ˈdɛn.sə.ti/ noun

Forms densities

  1. noun (physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
  2. noun The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed. “The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.”
  3. noun (mathematics, statistics) The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.
  4. noun Stupidity. “There's only so much density that pedagogy can penetrate.”

Synonyms

denseness mass density number density probability density thickheadedness blockheadedness concentration tightness compactness

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French densité or Latin densitas. Morphologically dense + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; --opposed to rarity.
  2. noun The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.

Etymology [L. densitas; cf. F. densité.]

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

Sanskrit

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