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

transaction

/tɹænˈzækʃən/ noun

Forms transactions

  1. noun The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans). “The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.”
  2. noun A deal or business agreement.
  3. noun An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.; personal interaction. “I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.”
  4. noun (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
  5. noun (computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
  6. noun (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
  7. noun (transactional analysis) A social interaction.

Synonyms

dealing dealings

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. By surface analysis, trans- + action.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
  2. noun That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

Etymology [L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See Act, Agent.]

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

Sanskrit

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