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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erosion

UK /ɪˈɹəʊʒən/ · US /ɪˈɹoʊʒən/ noun

Forms erosions

  1. noun (chiefly uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
  2. noun (chiefly uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
  3. noun (chiefly uncountable, figurative) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
  4. noun (chiefly uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
  5. noun (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
  6. noun (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
  7. noun (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
  8. noun (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).

Synonyms

eroding eating away wearing wearing away corrosion corroding

Etymology

From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō.
The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote
: "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
  2. noun The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

Etymology [L. erosio. See Erode.]

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

Sanskrit

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