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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dependency

/dɪˈpɛndənsi/ noun

Forms dependencies

  1. noun A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative. “Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.”
  2. noun Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else: “In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.”
  3. noun The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
  4. noun A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
  5. noun A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
  6. noun (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component. “This library has dependencies on a lot of other libraries. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.”
  7. noun (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on. “One of this library's dependencies is very finicky. It can be hard to get it to compile on some systems.”

Synonyms

colony protectorate province dominion addiction dependence dependance habituation

Etymology

From dependent + -cy or dependence + -y or depend + -ency.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
  2. noun A thing hanging down; a dependence.

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

Sanskrit

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