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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harmonic

UK /hɑːˈmɒnɪk/ · US /hɑɹˈmɑnɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms harmonics harmonick

  1. adjective Pertaining to harmony.
  2. adjective Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
  3. adjective (mathematics) Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance. “The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.”
  4. adjective Recurring periodically.
  5. adjective (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
  6. adjective (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
  7. noun (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
  8. noun (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
  9. noun (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
  10. noun (CB radio slang) One's child.

Synonyms

sympathetic consonant harmonical harmonized harmonised

Antonyms

nonharmonic

Etymology

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic. Doublet of armónico.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
  2. adjective Relating to harmony, --as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.
  3. noun A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

Etymology [L. harmonicus, Gr. harmonique. See Harmony.]

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

Sanskrit

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