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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interference

UK /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfɪəɹəns/ · US /ˌɪntəɹˈfɪɹɪns/ noun, verb

Forms interferences interferencing interferenced

  1. noun The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
  2. noun (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games. “They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference.”
  3. noun (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
  4. noun A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects. “They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.”
  5. noun (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
  6. noun (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
  7. noun (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
  8. verb (nonstandard) To interfere.

Synonyms

intervention hindrance hinderance noise disturbance hitch preventive preventative encumbrance incumbrance

Antonyms

noninterference

Etymology

From interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymath Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
  2. noun The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

Etymology [See Interfere.]

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

Sanskrit

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