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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deviation

UK /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/ · US /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/ noun

Forms deviations

  1. noun The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
  2. noun A departure from the correct way of acting.
  3. noun The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. “mankind’s deviation from divine will”
  4. noun A detour in a road or railway.
  5. noun (aviation) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
  6. noun (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
  7. noun (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
  8. noun (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

Synonyms

divergence departure difference deviance diversion digression deflection deflexion divagation

Etymology

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
  2. noun The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

Etymology [LL. deviatio: cf. F. déviation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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