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

intelligence

/ɪnˈtɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒəns/ noun

Forms intelligences

  1. noun (chiefly uncountable) The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
  2. noun (psychology) An individual's expected relative performance in a cognitive test. “intelligence quotient”
  3. noun (chiefly uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
  4. noun (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
  5. noun (chiefly uncountable) Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.
  6. noun (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  7. noun (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Synonyms

brightness intellect smartness wit sentient sapient sophont brain brains cleverness head esprit mind nous psyche reason smarts judgment intelligence service intelligence agency intelligence information news tidings word intelligence activity intelligence operation

Antonyms

unintelligence blockheadedness boneheadedness density denseness dimness dimwittedness doltery dullness dullwittedness dumbness dumminess stupidity

Etymology

From Middle English intelligence, from Old French intelligence, from Latin intelligentia, which is most likely from inter- (“between”) + legere (“to choose, pick out, read”). Doublet of intelligentsia.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
  2. noun The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

Etymology [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.]

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

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