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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junction

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms junctions junctioning junctioned

  1. noun The act of joining, or the state of being joined. “Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.”
  2. noun A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet. “Turn left at the next road junction.”
  3. noun (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet. “The two rail lines meet at a major junction.”
  4. noun The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
  5. noun (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
  6. noun (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
  7. noun (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
  8. noun (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
  9. verb (of roads or tracks) To form a junction. “critical junction”
  10. proper noun A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
  11. proper noun A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
  12. proper noun A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.

Synonyms

juncture combination composite conjunction fusion melding merger unification union unity conjugation colligation articulation join joint adjunction

Antonyms

cleft disjoint disjunct disjunction disunification disunion dysjunction malunion misunion separation

Etymology

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.
  2. noun The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross. Junction plate (Boilers), a covering or break-join plate riveted to and uniting the edges of sheets which make a butt joint.

Etymology [L. junctio, fr. jungere, junctum, to join: cf. F. jonction. See Join.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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