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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surgery

UK /ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ · US /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ noun

Forms surgeries

  1. noun (medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process of medical intervention involving incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure). “Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.”
  2. noun (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
  3. noun A room or department where surgery is performed.
  4. noun (UK) A doctor's office; a clinic. “I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.”
  5. noun (UK) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
  6. noun (UK) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic. “Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.”
  7. noun (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
  8. noun (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

Synonyms

operation bright lights and cold steel operating room operating theatre theatre office OR operating theater surgical operation surgical procedure surgical process

Etymology

From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
  2. noun A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Etymology [OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. Surgeon.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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