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

impulse

/ˈɪmpʌls/ noun, verb

Forms impulses impulsing impulsed

  1. noun A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
  2. noun A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action. “The impulse to learn drove me to study night and day.”
  3. noun (physics) The integral of force over time. “The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the projectile.”
  4. verb (transitive) To impel; to incite.

Synonyms

urge caprice whim nerve impulse nervous impulse neural impulse pulsation pulsing pulse impulsion impetus momentum

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French impulser, from Latin impulsus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
  2. noun The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
  3. verb To impel; to incite. [Obs.] Pope.

Etymology [L. impulsus, fr. impellere. See Impel.]

Etymology [See Impel.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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