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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appearance

UK /əˈpɪə.ɹəns/ · US /əˈpiɹ.əns/ noun

Forms appearances appearaunce

  1. noun The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye. “His sudden appearance surprised me.”
  2. noun A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition. “There was a strange appearance in the sky.”
  3. noun The way something looks; personal presence
  4. noun Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others. “Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.”
  5. noun (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality “Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.”
  6. noun The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character. “A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.”
  7. noun (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
  8. noun (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient. “The patient had a small bowel obstruction and there was no appearance until after the obstruction resolved.”

Synonyms

arrival manifestation spectacle apparition phenomenon presence aspect mien make face semblance show pretense façade visage air figure garb look manner visual aspect appearing coming into court

Antonyms

non-appearance nonappearance disappearance

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French apparence, from Latin apparentia, from appareo. Morphologically appear + -ance. Doublet of apparence and apparency. Displaced native Old English hīew (“the way something looks or seems”) and ætīewednes (“act of appearing or coming into view”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
  2. noun A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.

Etymology [F. apparence, L. apparentia, fr. apparere. See Appear.]

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

Sanskrit

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