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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conjunction

/kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/ noun

Forms conjunctions

  1. noun The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
  2. noun (grammar) A word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
  3. noun Cooccurrence; coincidence.
  4. noun (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
  5. noun (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
  6. noun (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
  7. noun A place where multiple things meet.
  8. noun (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Synonyms

connection union aphrodisia carnal knowledge coitus coition commerce commixtion congress consummation conversation copulation coupling intercourse intimacy intimate relations intromission joining lovemaking lustmaking concurrence coincidence co-occurrence junction conjugation colligation conjunctive connective continuative alignment

Antonyms

opposition

Etymology

From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
  2. noun The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

Etymology [L. conjunctio: cf. F. conjunction. See Conjoin.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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