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

orientation

/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms orientations

  1. noun (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
  2. noun (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
  3. noun (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
  4. noun (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
  5. noun (countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing. “The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.”
  6. noun (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
  7. noun (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
  8. noun (education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.

Synonyms

predilection preference orientation course

Antonyms

disorientation

Etymology

From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
  2. noun The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.

Etymology [Cf. F. orientation.]

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