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

potential

/pəˈtɛnʃəl/ noun, adjective

Forms potentials

  1. noun A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to). “Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician.”
  2. noun (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
  3. noun (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
  4. noun (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
  5. adjective Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
  6. adjective (archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
  7. adjective (physics, of a field) irrotational
  8. adjective (physics, of a flow) irrotational (see potential flow on Wikipedia)
  9. adjective (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.

Synonyms

noumenon spirit noumenal spiritual virtual efficacious influential potentiality potency electric potential potential difference potential drop voltage possible likely

Antonyms

matter phenomenon actual phenomenal real

Etymology

From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”). By surface analysis, potent + -ial.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. [Obs.] "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak.
  2. adjective Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle.
  3. noun Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially. Bacon.
  4. noun In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coördinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; --also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.

Etymology [Cf. F. potentiel. See Potency.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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