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

lapse

/læps/ noun, verb

Forms lapses lapsing lapsed

  1. noun A temporary failure; a slip. “memory lapse”
  2. noun A decline or fall in standards.
  3. noun A pause in continuity.
  4. noun An interval of time between events.
  5. noun A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
  6. noun (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
  7. noun (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
  8. noun (theology) A fall or apostasy.
  9. verb (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
  10. verb (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
  11. verb (intransitive) To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
  12. verb (intransitive) To become void.
  13. verb (intransitive) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.

Synonyms

blooper gaffe thinko aberration bloomer blunder boner boo-boo break clanger cock-up disadventure error fault faux pas floater flub fluff fuckup goof oversight backsliding lapsing relapse relapsing reversion reverting sink pass backslide

Etymology

From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; --restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
  2. noun A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
  3. verb To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; --mostly restricted to figurative uses.
  4. verb To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Etymology [L. lapsus, fr. labi, p. p. lapsus, to slide, to fall: cf. F. laps. See Sleep.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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