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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interpolation

UK /ɪnˌtɜː.pəˈleɪʃən/ · US /ɪnˌtɝ.pəˈleɪʃən/ noun

Forms interpolations

  1. noun (music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
  2. noun (mathematics, sciences) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
  3. noun (computing) The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
  4. noun (editing, content analysis) That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious. “Today a widely established convention encloses all editorial interpolations in square brackets [like so] for clarity.”
  5. noun (music, euphemistic) The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.

Synonyms

transclusion insertion interjection interposition interpellation

Etymology

From French interpolation, from Latin interpolatio. Morphologically interpolate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
  2. noun That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.

Etymology [L. interpolatio an alteration made here and there: cf. F. interpolation.]

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

Sanskrit

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