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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

deposition

/ˌdɛp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ noun, proper noun

Forms depositions

  1. noun The removal of someone from office.
  2. noun The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
  3. noun (chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
  4. noun (law) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
  5. noun (meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
  6. noun (physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
  7. noun (religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
  8. proper noun (Christianity) The removal of Jesus from the cross.

Synonyms

desublimation deposit dethronement

Antonyms

erosion corrosion sublimation

Etymology

From Middle English deposicion, from Old French deposicion (French déposition), from Latin depositio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
  2. noun The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.

Etymology [L. depositio, fr. deponere: cf. F. déposition. See Deposit.]

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

Sanskrit

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