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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imagination

/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/ noun

Forms imaginations

  1. noun The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images. “Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.”
  2. noun Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing. “You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.”
  3. noun Creativity; resourcefulness. “His imagination makes him a valuable team member.”
  4. noun A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

Synonyms

creativity fancy imaginativeness invention inventiveness conception notion imagining vision imaging imagery mental imagery resource resourcefulness

Etymology

From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin imāginātiō. Equivalent to imagine + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
  2. noun The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

Etymology [OE. imaginacionum, F. imagination, fr. L. imaginatio. See Imagine.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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