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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resonance

/ˈɹɛzənəns/ noun

Forms resonances

  1. noun (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
  2. noun (countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
  3. noun (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
  4. noun (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord. “emotional resonance”
  5. noun (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
  6. noun (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
  7. noun An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
  8. noun (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.

Synonyms

resound mesomerism plangency reverberance ringing sonorousness sonority vibrancy rapport

Etymology

From Old French resonance (French résonance), from Latin resonantia (“echo”), from resonō (“to resound”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
  2. noun A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs.

Etymology [Cf. F. résonance, L. resonantia an echo.]

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

Sanskrit

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