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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series

UK /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/ · US /ˈsɪɹ.iz/ noun

Forms serieses

  1. noun A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other. “A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.”
  2. noun (broadcasting) A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals. “Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.”
  3. noun (broadcasting, chiefly UK) Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”). “I enjoyed the third series of Friends.”
  4. noun (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ. “The harmonic series has been much studied.”
  5. noun (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition. “The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.”
  6. noun (ichthyology) The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder.
  7. noun (lepidopterology) The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily.
  8. noun (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

Synonyms

chain line sequence stream succession array procession consecution string train show program season serie serial serial publication

Etymology

Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
  2. noun Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

Etymology [L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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