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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departure

/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/ noun

Forms departures

  1. noun The act of departing or something that has departed. “The departure was scheduled for noon.”
  2. noun A deviation from a plan or procedure.
  3. noun (euphemistic) A death.
  4. noun (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
  5. noun (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. “The area is computed by latitudes and departures.”
  6. noun (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
  7. noun (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

Synonyms

leaving exit going going away deviation divergence difference passing loss expiration release

Antonyms

arrival

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]
  2. noun Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

Etymology [From Depart.]

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

Sanskrit

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