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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efficient

/ɪˈfɪʃənt/ adjective, noun

Forms efficients

  1. adjective Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. “An efficient process would automate all the routine work.”
  2. adjective Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input. “The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.”
  3. adjective Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent). “Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained”
  4. adjective (proscribed, old use) effective, efficacious
  5. noun (obsolete) A cause; something that causes an effect.

Synonyms

lean businesslike economical efficacious potent effective

Antonyms

inefficient prodigal uneconomical

Etymology

1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
  2. noun An efficient cause; a prime mover.

Etymology [L. efficiens, -entis, p. pr. of efficere to effect: cf. F. efficient. See Effect, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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