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

pressure

UK /ˈpɹɛʃə/ · US /ˈpɹɛʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms pressures pressuring pressured

  1. noun A pressing; a force applied to a surface. “Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.”
  2. noun (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
  3. noun An amount of pressure.
  4. noun A contrasting force or impulse of any kind. “the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.”
  5. noun Distress. “She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.”
  6. noun Urgency. “the pressure of business”
  7. noun (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  8. verb (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence. “Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.”

Synonyms

affliction grievance press pressure level force per unit area pressing imperativeness insistence insistency pressure sensation atmospheric pressure air pressure coerce hale squeeze force blackmail blackjack

Etymology

OF., fr. L. pressura, fr. premere. See 4th Press.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
  2. noun A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

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

Sanskrit

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

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