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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

imposition

/ˌɪm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ noun

Forms impositions

  1. noun The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
  2. noun An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
  3. noun That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
  4. noun A trick or deception put or laid on others.
  5. noun (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
  6. noun (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
  7. noun (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

Synonyms

imposure infliction obtrusion burden charge enjoinder injunction tax cheating deception delusion fraud imposture trick impot

Etymology

From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." Milton.
  2. noun That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.

Etymology [F., fr. L. impositio the application of a name to a thing. See Impone.]

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

Sanskrit

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