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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

saturated

adjective, noun

Also a form of saturate

Forms saturateds

  1. adjective (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
  2. adjective (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
  3. adjective (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
  4. adjective (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
  5. adjective (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
  6. adjective (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
  7. adjective (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic. “a saturated value”
  8. adjective Having a high level of saturation (in various senses). “a saturated image”
  9. noun A saturated hydrocarbon.

Synonyms

impregnate drenched sodden bewatered damp dripping drunk humid irriguous madid moist moisty overwatered plashy soaked soggy soppy spewy spongy squidgy concentrated pure

Antonyms

unsaturated

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
  2. adjective Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; - -said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.

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

Sanskrit

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