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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representation

/ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms representations repræsentation re-presentation

  1. noun That which represents something else. “The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body.”
  2. noun The act of representing. “We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.”
  3. noun (by extension, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
  4. noun (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court. “People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance.”
  5. noun (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government. “The lack of representation in the British parliament was one of the main factors behind the American Revolution.”
  6. noun (mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
  7. noun A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
  8. noun A theatrical performance.
  9. noun (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again. “rates of representation to the emergency department”

Synonyms

likeness mental representation internal representation delegacy agency theatrical performance theatrical histrionics

Etymology

From Late Middle English representacioun, from Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentātiō. By surface analysis, represent + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
  2. noun That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.

Etymology [F. repr, L. representatio.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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