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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fusion

/ˈfjuː.ʒən/ noun, verb

Forms fusions fusioning fusioned

  1. noun The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
  2. noun (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
  3. noun (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
  4. noun A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
  5. noun The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
  6. noun (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
  7. noun (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
  8. noun (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
  9. verb (nonstandard, transitive) To combine; to fuse.

Synonyms

merger unification coalition nuclear fusion nuclear fusion reaction optical fusion spinal fusion

Antonyms

fission

Etymology

First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“to pour; to melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
  2. noun The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

Etymology [L. fusio, fr. fundere, fusum to pour, melt: cf. F. fusion. See Fuse, v. t., aud cf, Foison.]

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

Sanskrit

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