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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atmosphere

UK /ˈætməsˌfɪə/ · US /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ noun, proper noun

Forms atmospheres the ATmosphere atmosphaere atmosphære

  1. noun The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
  2. noun The air in a particular place.
  3. noun (figurative) The conditions (such as music, illumination, etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
  4. noun (figurative) The apparent mood felt in an environment. “The atmosphere for the football match was great.”
  5. noun A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
  6. noun (film, television, uncountable) Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
  7. proper noun (Internet) The distributed social media network of federated services using the AT Protocol.

Synonyms

air ambiance feeling mood ambience standard atmosphere atm standard pressure atmospheric state aura

Etymology

Borrowed from French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere.

Blend of AT Protocol + atmosphere.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; --applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.
  2. noun A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

Etymology [Gr. atman breath, soul, G. athem breath) + atmosphère. See Sphere.]

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

Sanskrit

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