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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recession

/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/ noun

Forms recessions

  1. noun The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
  2. noun A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
  3. noun (economics) A period of reduced economic activity. “Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.”
  4. noun The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
  5. noun The act of ceding something back.
  6. noun (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.

Synonyms

withdrawal return procession recess niche corner recessional ceding back receding

Antonyms

boom

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recessiō, from recēdō (“recede, retreat”), from re- (“back”) + cēdō (“to go”). By surface analysis, recess + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South.
  2. noun The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Etymology [L. recessio, fr. recedere, recessum. See Recede.]

Etymology [Pref. re- + cession.]

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