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

collection

/kəˈlɛkʃən/ noun

Forms collections

  1. noun A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together. “The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.”
  2. noun (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
  3. noun The activity of collecting. “Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.”
  4. noun (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
  5. noun A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
  6. noun (law) Debt collection.
  7. noun (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  8. noun (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

Synonyms

aggregation accumulation assemblage compendium solicitation appeal ingathering collecting assembling

Etymology

From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
  2. noun That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.

Etymology [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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