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

activity

/ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ noun

Forms activities

  1. noun (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness. “Pit row was abuzz with activity.”
  2. noun (countable) Something done as an action or a movement. “The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.”
  3. noun (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion. “An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.”
  4. noun (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
  5. noun (physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
  6. noun The property of substances to react with other substances

Synonyms

pursuit undertaking doings endeavor enterprise pursuance venture action activeness bodily process body process bodily function natural process natural action

Antonyms

rest passivity inactivity

Etymology

From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

Etymology [Cf. F. activité, LL. activitas.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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