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

specific

/spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms specifics specifick

  1. adjective Explicit or definite.
  2. adjective (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
  3. adjective (sometimes in combination) Special, distinctive or unique.
  4. adjective intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
  5. adjective Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it. “a highly specific test”
  6. adjective Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms. “Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.”
  7. adjective (immunology) Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
  8. adjective (physics) Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
  9. noun A distinguishing attribute or quality.
  10. noun A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
  11. noun Specification.
  12. noun (in the plural) The details; particulars.
  13. noun (toponymy) The distinguishing part of a toponym.

Synonyms

express singular monosemous unambiguous concrete discrete individual particular proper peculiar

Antonyms

unspecific nonspecific broad general generic universal all-purpose general-purpose gross group-specific antigen non-specific overall

Etymology

From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.
  2. adjective Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
  3. noun A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.
  4. noun Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied. Dr. H. More.

Etymology [F. spécifique, or NL. cpesificus; L. species a particular sort or kind + facere to make. Cf. Specify.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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