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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inflation

UK /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩/ · US /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ noun, proper noun

Forms inflations

  1. noun An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid. “The inflation of the balloon took five hours.”
  2. noun (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values. “Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.”
  3. noun Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  4. noun (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
  5. proper noun (cosmology) The inflationary epoch of the Universe, where the size of the space of universe expanded at speeds beyond the speed of light. One of the ages of the Universe. The cosmic era when most formulations of Big Bang theory start their timelines.

Synonyms

Age of Inflation Epoch of Inflation Era of Inflation Inflationary Age Inflationary Epoch Inflationary Era rising prices ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness

Antonyms

deflation disinflation

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.

From inflation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.
  2. noun The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson.

Etymology [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.]

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

Sanskrit

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