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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adaptation

UK /ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms adaptations adaption

  1. noun (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
  2. noun (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
  3. noun (uncountable, linguistics) The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.
  4. noun (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
  5. noun (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
  6. noun (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
  7. noun (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
  8. noun (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.

Synonyms

version adaption adjustment

Antonyms

maladaptation

Etymology

From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“to fit, adjust, modify; to adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.
  2. noun The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Etymology [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.]

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

Sanskrit

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