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

distraction

/dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/ noun

Forms distractions

  1. noun Something that distracts. “Poking one's eye is a good distraction from a hurting toe.”
  2. noun The process of being distracted. “We have to reduce distraction in class if we want students to achieve good results.”
  3. noun Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
  4. noun Mental disarray; a deranged state of mind; insanity. “The incessant nightmares drove him to distraction.”
  5. noun (medicine, archaic) Traction so exerted as to separate surfaces normally opposed.

Synonyms

beguilement misdirection

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French distraction, from Latin distractio. Equivalent to distract + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
  2. noun That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot.

Etymology [L. distractio: cf. F. distraction.]

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

Sanskrit

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