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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incidence

/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/ noun

Forms incidences

  1. noun The act of something happening; occurrence.
  2. noun The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
  3. noun The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
  4. noun (physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
  5. noun (epidemiology) A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
  6. noun (geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
  7. noun (graph theory) The relation between an edge of a graph and one of the vertices it connects.

Synonyms

relative incidence

Etymology

From Middle French incidence, from Medieval Latin incidentia (“a falling upon”), from Latin incidens, present participle of incidere (“to fall upon”), from in (“on”) + cadere (“to fall”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A falling on or upon; an incident; an event. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  2. noun The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.

Etymology [Cf. F. incidence.]

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

Sanskrit

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