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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inclination

/ˌɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms inclinations

  1. noun A physical tilt or bend. “The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.”
  2. noun A slant or slope. “The road up to the house had a steep inclination.”
  3. noun A tendency. “His inclination to drink escalated to alcoholism.”
  4. noun (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane. “The astronomer calculated the inclination of the equator or ecliptic of Earth and the orbital planes of each visible heavenly body.”
  5. noun (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

Synonyms

incline inclining steepness leaning proclivity propensity disposition tendency inclination of an orbit angle of inclination dip angle of dip magnetic dip magnetic inclination tilt list lean

Antonyms

disinclination

Etymology

From Middle English inclinacioun, inclinacyon, from Old French inclination and Latin inclīnātiō. Morphologically incline + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.
  2. noun A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed.

Etymology [L. inclinatio: cf. F. inclination.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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