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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facility

/fəˈsɪlɪti/ noun

Forms facilities

  1. noun The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. “Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.”
  2. noun A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
  3. noun The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
  4. noun Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. “The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.”
  5. noun (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.
  6. noun (Scots law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
  7. noun (dated) Affability.

Synonyms

ease knack ability technique aptitude capacity craft capability competency competence cunning dexterity hand list prowess moxie potential proficiency skill talent installation adeptness adroitness deftness quickness readiness

Etymology

From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
  2. noun Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

Etymology [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilitFacile.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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