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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tension

UK /ˈtɛnʃn̩/ · US /ˈtɛnʃən/ noun, verb

Forms tensions tensioning tensioned

  1. noun The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. “My tensions with Eric over his alleged past actions have been fully resolved.”
  2. noun A psychological state of being tense.
  3. noun A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
  4. noun (physics, engineering) The state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
  5. noun (physics, engineering) A force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
  6. noun (physics, engineering) Voltage.
  7. verb To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on. “We tensioned the cable until it snapped.”

Synonyms

tenseness stress tensity tautness latent hostility

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tension, from Latin tēnsiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
  2. noun Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.

Etymology [L. tensio, from tendere, tensum, to stretch: cf. F. tension. See Tense, a.]

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