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

detriment

/ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/ noun, verb

Forms detriments detrimenting detrimented

  1. noun Harm, hurt, damage.
  2. noun (UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
  3. noun (astrology) The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
  4. noun (heraldry, of the moon) The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
  5. verb (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.

Synonyms

harm hurt illfare damage expense disadvantage

Antonyms

in complement in plenitude benefit

Etymology

From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).
Detriment is related to the word detritus, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; --used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton.
  2. noun A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [Eng.]
  3. verb To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic]

Etymology [L. detrimentum, fr. deterere, detritum, to rub or wear away; de + terere to rub: cf. F. détriment. See Trite.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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