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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focal

UK /ˈfəʊ.kl̩/ · US /ˈfoʊ.kl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms focals

  1. adjective Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus (definite location). “focal point”
  2. adjective Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus of attention. “focal point”
  3. adjective (medicine) Limited to a small area. “The rash was focal.”
  4. noun (geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.
  5. noun (Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
  6. noun The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
  7. noun A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
  8. noun A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
  9. noun The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
  10. noun A major point of interest; an attraction.
  11. noun An exemplar of a concept.

Antonyms

nonfocal widespread locoregional systemic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. By surface analysis, focus + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point. Focal distance, or length,of a lens or mirror (Opt.), the distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its optical center. --Focal distance of a telescope, the distance of the image of an object from the object glass.

Etymology [Cf.F. focal. See Focus.]

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

Sanskrit

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