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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confluence

UK /ˈkɒn.flu.əns/ · US /ˈkɑnˌflu.əns/ noun, verb

Forms confluences confluencing confluenced confluency

  1. noun The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet. “The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.”
  2. noun The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river. “We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.”
  3. noun The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
  4. noun A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things. “The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.”
  5. noun (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
  6. noun (computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
  7. verb (intransitive, transitive) To join together into one stream.

Synonyms

watersmeet coinfluence conflux meeting merging concourse

Antonyms

fork branch

Etymology

From late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
  2. noun Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

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

Sanskrit

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

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