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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subduction

/səbˈdʌkʃən/ noun

Forms subductions

  1. noun The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
  2. noun (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  3. noun The act of subducting or taking away.
  4. noun Arithmetical subtraction.
  5. noun (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.

Etymology

From Latin subductiō, from subdūcere (“to draw from under or below”). Equivalent to subduct + -ion or subduce + -tion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of subducting or taking away. Bp. Hall.
  2. noun Arithmetical subtraction. Sir M. Hale.

Etymology [L. subductio.]

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