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

abandonment

/əˈbæn.d(ə)n.m(ə)nt/ noun

Forms abandonments

  1. noun The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
  2. noun The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion. “Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.”
  3. noun An abandoned building or structure. “High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.”
  4. noun (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
  5. noun (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
  6. noun The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
  7. noun A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
  8. noun The self-surrender to an outside influence.

Synonyms

abandoning abdication abjuration abnegation abrogation cession defection demission dereliction desertion rejection relinquishment renunciation resignation surrender forsaking

Antonyms

acquisition arrogation care completion conviviality correction custody entertainment heed help hospitality maintenance

Etymology

Borrowed from French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”). Equivalent to abandon + -ment. (See also English banns.)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
  2. noun The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

Etymology [Cf. F. abandonnement.]

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

Sanskrit

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