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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transformation

UK /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms transformations

  1. noun The act of transforming or the state of being transformed. “undergo a radical transformation”
  2. noun A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
  3. noun (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
  4. noun (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
  5. noun (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
  6. noun (politics, South Africa) The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
  7. noun (obsolete) A woman's wig.

Synonyms

metamorphosis transfiguration transmogrification transmutation conversion development transfigurement sea change shift translation

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --(a) (Biol.)
  2. noun Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.

Etymology [L. transformatio: cf. transformation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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