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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abduction

UK /əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/ · US /æbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/ noun

Forms abductions

  1. noun A leading away; a carrying away.
  2. noun (anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
  3. noun (logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
  4. noun (law) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being. “the abduction of a child”
  5. noun (ufology) An alien abduction.

Synonyms

appropriation kidnapping seizure withdrawal retroduction abstraction

Antonyms

adduction replacement restitution restoration surrender reinstatement

Etymology

From Latin abductiō(n) (“a robbing; an abduction”), from abdūcō (“to take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, abduct + -ion or abduce + -tion.
* (physiology): From French, from Latin abductus.
* Compare French abduction.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.
  2. noun The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

Etymology [L. abductio: cf. F. abduction.]

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

Sanskrit

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