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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elevation

/ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/ noun

Forms elevations

  1. noun The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc. “elevation to a throne”
  2. noun The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
  3. noun That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station. “A hill is an elevation of the ground.”
  4. noun (astronomy) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
  5. noun The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
  6. noun The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
  7. noun The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
  8. noun (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.

Synonyms

lift raising acme height peak pinnacle summit superlative meridian tiptop top EL altitude ALT natural elevation aggrandizement aggrandisement

Antonyms

disgust demotion depression diminishment reduction

Etymology

From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; --said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
  2. noun Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. "Degrees of elevation above us." Locke.

Etymology [L. elevatio: cf. F. élévation.]

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

Sanskrit

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