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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contrast

UK /kənˈtɹɑːst/ · US /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/ noun, verb

Forms contrasts contrasting contrasted

  1. noun (uncountable) The degree of this difference. “The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.”
  2. noun (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  3. noun (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts. “Israel is a country of many contrasts.”
  4. noun (countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
  5. noun (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
  6. noun (uncountable, medicine) Contrast medium
  7. verb (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
  8. verb (intransitive, often with with) To form a contrast. “Foreground and background strongly contrast.”

Synonyms

direct contrast line dividing line demarcation counterpoint

Antonyms

liken

Etymology

From French contraster, from Latin contrāstāre (“to resist", "to withstand”), from contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
  2. verb To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.
  3. verb To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.
  4. noun The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.

Etymology [F. contraster, LL. contrastare to resist, withstand, fr. L. contra + stare to stand. See Stand.]

Etymology [F. contraste: cf. It. contrasto.]

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

Sanskrit

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