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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revolution

/ˌɹɛv.əˈluː.ʃən/ noun

Forms revolutions the Revolution

  1. noun (countable, politics) A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change. “The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.”
  2. noun (countable, politics) The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
  3. noun Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
  4. noun (astronomy) In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body. “It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.”
  5. noun A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving. “the AI revolution”
  6. noun A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
  7. noun Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
  8. noun (card games) a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.

Synonyms

rev wheel rotation gyration

Antonyms

evolution counterrevolution

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
  2. noun Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.

Etymology [F. révolution, L. revolutio. See Revolve.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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