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

intermediate

/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms intermediates intermediating intermediated

  1. adjective Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
  2. noun Anything in an intermediate position.
  3. noun An intermediary.
  4. noun An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
  5. noun (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
  6. noun (chemical industries) Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
  7. noun (motor racing) A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet. “Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
  9. verb (transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker. “Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.”

Synonyms

average middle middling mild medium medial moderate mid-size intercede mediate liaise arbitrate

Antonyms

extreme intense terminal

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.
  2. verb To come between; to intervene; to interpose. Milton.

Etymology [Pref. inter- + mediate: cf. F. intermédiat.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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