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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completion

UK /kəmˈpliː.ʃən/ · US /kəmˈpli.ʃən/ noun

Forms completions

  1. noun The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment. “The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time.”
  2. noun (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
  3. noun (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
  4. noun (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
  5. noun (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
  6. noun (computing) Synonym of autocomplete. “tab completion”
  7. noun (euphemistic) Orgasm.

Synonyms

autocomplete accomplishment completement completeness conclusion consummation doneness execution finishedness fulfillment fulfillness realization pass completion culmination closing windup mop up

Antonyms

incompleteness incompletion noncompleteness noncompletion uncompletedness uncompletion unfinish unfinishedness

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin completio. By surface analysis, complete + -tion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
  2. noun State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.

Etymology [L. completio a filling, a fulfillment.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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