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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defect

/ˈdiːfɛkt/ noun, verb

Forms defects defecting defected

  1. noun A fault or malfunction. “a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment”
  2. noun The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
  3. noun (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
  4. verb (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
  5. verb (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
  6. verb (military) To join the enemy army.
  7. verb (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

Synonyms

fault flaw blot imperfection shortcoming drawback deficiency inadequacy peccadillo sin blemish mar desert

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; --opposed to superfluity.
  2. noun Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
  3. verb To fail; to become deficient. [Obs.] "Defected honor." Warner.
  4. verb To injure; to damage. "None can my life defect." [R.] Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639).

Etymology [L. defectus, fr. deficere, defectum, to desert, fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Deficit.]

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

Sanskrit

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