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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generalization

noun

Also a form of generalisation

Forms generalizations generalisation

  1. noun An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class.
  2. noun The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
  3. noun Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
  4. noun An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
  5. noun (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles. “A hypersphere is a generalization of a sphere across more than three dimensions.”

Synonyms

universalization abstraction despecification genericization generalisation induction inductive reasoning generality stimulus generalization stimulus generalisation

Antonyms

specialization concretization individualization particularization singularization

Etymology

Cf. F. généralisation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
  2. noun A general inference.

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

Sanskrit

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