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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accession

/ækˈsɛʃ.ən/ noun, verb

Forms accessions accessioning accessioned

  1. noun A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined. “a king's accession to a confederacy”
  2. noun Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
  3. noun Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
  4. noun (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
  5. noun (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. “accession to the European Union”
  6. noun The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity. “her accession to the throne”
  7. noun (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
  8. noun Agreement.
  9. verb (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).

Synonyms

addition assenting entree access admission admittance rise to power

Antonyms

deaccession deacquisition

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
  2. noun Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.

Etymology [L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F. accession. See Accede.]

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

Sanskrit

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