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

transition

/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/ noun, verb

Forms transitions transitioning transitioned

  1. noun The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
  2. noun A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
  3. noun (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
  4. noun (music) A change of key.
  5. noun (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
  6. noun (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
  7. noun (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
  8. noun (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
  9. verb (intransitive) To make a transition.
  10. verb (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change. “The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.”
  11. verb (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

Synonyms

gender transition passage conversion changeover modulation

Etymology

From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
  2. noun A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

Etymology [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 14 Sanskrit matches →