Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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expiration

UK /ˌɛk.spəˈɹeɪ̯.ʃən/ · US /ˌɛk.spɚˈeɪ̯.ʃən/ noun

Forms expirations exspiration

noun (uncountable) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth. “crackles heard on expiration”
noun (countable) A single outward breath. “labored expirations”
noun Other similar release of volatile matter.
noun (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; thus, synonym of death.
noun Any other (metaphorically comparable) cessation, extinction, or ending. “expiration date”
noun That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

Synonyms

exhalation emission demise quietus death end tomb celestial transfer decease decomposition defunction dematerialization dirt nap doom exit fatality liquidation mortality passing repose termination expiry loss departure going release breathing out

Antonyms

inspiration inhalation

Etymology

From Middle English expiracioun, exspiracioun (“vapor, breath”), from Latin expīrātiōnem, exspīrātiōnem, accusative singular of expīrātiō, exspīrātiō. By surface analysis, expire + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

noun The act of expiring; as: (a)(Physiol.)
noun The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; --opposed to Ant: inspiration.

Etymology [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.]

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

Sanskrit

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

समुच्छ्वास sam-ucchvāsa sighing deeply, heavy expiration.
पान pāna = apāna, breath, breathing out, expiration.
विनिश्वास vi-niśvāsa breathing hard, strong expiration, sighing, a sigh.
निःश्वास niḥ-śvāsa breathing out, expiration; breath, sighing, a sigh; (often read ni-śvāsa. )
एतन etana expiration, breathing out, discharging air from the lungs; the fish Silurus Pelorius.
निःश्वसित niḥ-śvasita breathed out, sighed; sighing, breathing out; ( am ), n. sighing, expiration, a sigh.
प्राण prāṇa breathing, breath, respiration, inspiration and expiration, breath of life, spirit, vital action or life gen…
अपान apāna expiration, breathing out (opposed to prāṇa ); that of the five vital airs which goes downwards and out at t…

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