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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assembly

UK /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ · US /əˈsɛmb.li/ noun, proper noun

Forms assemblies

  1. noun A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device. “In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.”
  2. noun The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements. “instructions for assembly”
  3. noun A congregation of people in one place for a purpose. “school assembly”
  4. noun (politics) A legislative body. “the General Assembly of the United Nations”
  5. noun (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
  6. noun (computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
  7. proper noun (US politics) The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States. “Nevada Assembly”

Synonyms

gathering foregathering church fabrication forum meeting place assemblage

Antonyms

disassembly

Etymology

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
  2. noun A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell.

Etymology [F. assemblée, fr. assembler. See Assemble.]

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

Sanskrit

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