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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session

/ˈsɛ.ʃən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sessions sessioning sessioned

  1. noun A period of time devoted to a particular activity. “counseling session”
  2. noun An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions. “This court is now in session.”
  3. noun (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected. “Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.”
  4. noun (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
  5. noun (chiefly obsolete or theology) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  6. noun (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
  7. noun (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
  8. noun (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
  9. verb (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

school term academic term academic session seance sitting

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

Variant of Sessions.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. [Archaic]
  2. noun The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.

Etymology [L. sessio, fr. sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. session. See Sit.]

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

Sanskrit

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