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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accretion

UK /əˈkɹiːʃn̩/ · US /əˈkɹiʃən/ noun

Forms accretions

  1. noun (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
  2. noun (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this. “A mineral augments not by growth, but by accretion.”
  3. noun (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
  4. noun (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
  5. noun (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner. “The accretion of particles forms a solid mass.”
  6. noun (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
  7. noun (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally. “accretion of ice”
  8. noun A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it. “Accretions of dirt on clothing are often left in place by conservators because they can provide additional details about the artefact’s importance or history.”

Synonyms

accrescence accumulation accrual accruer

Antonyms

nonaccretion attrition erosion

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin accrētiō (“increase, increment”) + English -ion (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results). Accrētiō is derived from accrēscō (“to grow, increase”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results); and accrēscō is from ac- (a variant of ad-, prefix meaning ‘to’, or having an intensifying effect) + crēscō (“to grow; to increase”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to cause to grow; to grow; to nourish”)).
Doublet of accrue, crescent, and increase.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
  2. noun The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.

Etymology [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue.]

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