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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audition

/ɔːˈdɪʃn̩/ noun, verb

Forms auditions auditioning auditioned

  1. noun (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. “I've been to five auditions this week.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The sense of hearing. “His audition was poor.”
  3. noun An act of hearing; being heard.
  4. noun (rare) Something heard.
  5. verb (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition. “We auditioned several actors for the part.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To take part in such a performance. “Several actors auditioned for the part.”

Synonyms

casting tryout hearing auditory sense sense of hearing auditory modality try out

Antonyms

deafness surdity

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin audītiō, from audiō (“to hear”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

Etymology [L. auditio.]

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

Sanskrit

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