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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resection

noun, verb

Forms resections resectioning resectioned

  1. noun (medicine) The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.
  2. noun (surveying) A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
  3. noun A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
  4. verb (medicine) To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
  5. verb (surveying) To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
  6. verb (digital image processing) To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
  7. verb To redivide into new sections.
  8. verb (education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
  9. verb (civil engineering) To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
  10. verb (civil engineering, chiefly India) To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
  11. verb To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.

Synonyms

excision -ectomy

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin resectiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.
  2. noun The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

Etymology [L. resectio: cf. F. résection.]

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