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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response

UK /ɹɪˈspɒns/ · US /ɹɪˈspɑns/ noun

Forms responses

  1. noun An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply. “When pushed for an answer, she gave the stock response.”
  2. noun The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question. “A ready response to questions about wrongdoing”
  3. noun An oracular answer.
  4. noun (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
  5. noun (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
  6. noun A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
  7. noun An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
  8. noun A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.

Synonyms

reaction answer reply reception

Etymology

From Middle English respounse, respons, from Old French respons, respuns, responce, ultimately from the Latin respōnsum, a nominal use of the neuter form of respōnsus, the perfect passive participle of respondeō, from re (“again”) + spondeō (“promise”). Doublet of responsum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of responding.
  2. noun An answer or reply. Specifically: (a) Reply to an objection in formal disputation. I. Watts.

Etymology [OF. response, respons, F. réponse, from L. responsum, from respondere. See Respond.]

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

Sanskrit

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