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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isolation

/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/ noun

Forms isolations

  1. noun (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people. “She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.”
  2. noun The act of isolating.
  3. noun (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
  4. noun (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
  5. noun (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine) “Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.”
  6. noun (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
  7. noun (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.

Synonyms

aloneness seclusion loneliness loneness onehead oneship onlyhood onliness solitariness solitude closing off

Etymology

First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman.

Etymology [Cf. F. isolation.]

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

Sanskrit

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