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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instantaneous

/ɪnstənˈteɪni.əs/ adjective

  1. adjective Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.

Synonyms

immediate instant flash split-second insta- present

Antonyms

delayed gradual nonimmediate noninstantaneous slow

Etymology

Derived from New Latin īnstāntāneus, from Latin īnstantem.
From New Latin īnstāntāneus, from Latin īnstantem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous.
  2. adjective At or during a given instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc. Instantaneous center of rotation (Kinematics), in a plane or in a plane figure which has motions both of translation and of rotation in the plane, is the point which for the instant is at rest.

Etymology [Cf. F. instantané.]

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

Sanskrit

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