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

equilibrium

/ɛkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/ noun

Forms equilibriums equilibria æquilibrium

  1. noun The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
  2. noun Mental balance.
  3. noun (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
  4. noun (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.

Synonyms

balance stability sanity chemical equilibrium equipoise counterbalance labyrinthine sense vestibular sense sense of balance sense of equilibrium

Antonyms

disequilibrium imbalance instability insanity madness nonequilibrium

Etymology

From Latin aequilībrium, from equal + lībra (“balance”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.
  2. noun A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body.

Etymology [L. aequilibrium, fr. aequilibris in equilibrium, level; aequus equal + libra balance. See Equal, and Librate.]

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

Sanskrit

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