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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function

UK /ˈfʌŋ(k)ʃən/ · US /ˈfʌŋkʃən/ noun, verb

Forms functions functioning functioned

  1. noun What something does or is used for.
  2. noun A professional or official position.
  3. noun An official or social occasion. “Our hotel is hosting a function for all the warehouse workers on the night of April 18.”
  4. noun (slang) A party.
  5. noun Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
  6. noun A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
  7. noun (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
  8. noun (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
  9. verb (intransitive) To have a function.
  10. verb (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

Synonyms

aim intention purpose role use occupation office part affair occasion social occasion social function func map mapping mathematical function operator transformation procedure routine single-valued function subroutine subprogram work operate go run serve officiate

Antonyms

malfunction

Etymology

From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. "In the function of his public calling." Swift.
  2. noun The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
  3. verb To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

Etymology [L. functio, fr. fungi to perform, execute, akin to Skr. bhuj to enjoy, have the use of: cf. F. fonction. Cf. Defunct.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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