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

“Qualities” is a form of

quality

UK /ˈkwɒlɪti/ · US /ˈkwɑləti/ noun

Forms qualities

  1. noun (countable) The kind, condition, and/or the set of characteristics of something, as opposed to the quantity of something. “The lattice structure of a steel profoundly changes its qualities.”
  2. noun (countable) A single trait. “While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.”
  3. noun (uncountable) Good characteristics in particular; level of excellence; freedom of faults and flaws. “This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.”
  4. noun (attributive, occasionally proscribed) Good worth, good make. “For this building project we need to use quality materials that will last for many decades.”
  5. noun (archaic) Position; status; rank.
  6. noun (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.) “A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.”
  7. noun (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
  8. noun (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. “To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".”

Synonyms

duty caliber calibre character lineament timbre timber tone choice prime prize select

Etymology

From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
  2. noun Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.

Etymology [F. qualité, L. qualitas, fr. qualis how constituted, as; akin to E. which. See Which.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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