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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inverse

/ɪnˈvɝs/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms inverses inversing inversed

  1. adjective Opposite in effect, nature or order.
  2. adjective Reverse, opposite in order.
  3. adjective (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
  4. adjective (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity. “Multiplication is the inverse operation to division.”
  5. adjective (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion. “A circle inversion maps a given generalized circle to its inverse generalized circle.”
  6. adjective (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
  7. noun An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards. “Cowgirl is the inverse of missionary.”
  8. noun The reverse of any procedure or process.
  9. noun (mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
  10. noun (geometry) The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
  11. noun (logic) The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
  12. noun (addition) The negative of a given number.
  13. noun (multiplication) One divided by a given number.
  14. noun (functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
  15. verb (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

Synonyms

additive inverse multiplicative inverse compositional inverse inverse point inverse curve opposite reverse

Antonyms

compute direct

Etymology

Recorded since 1440, from Latin inversus, the past participle of invertere (“to invert”), itself from in- (“against, in”) + vertere (“to turn”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; --opposed to direct.
  2. adjective Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
  3. noun That which is inverse.

Etymology [L. inversus, p. p. of invertere: cf. F. inverse. See Invert.]

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

Sanskrit

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