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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

description

/dɪˈskɹɪpʃən/ noun

Forms descriptions

  1. noun A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. “give a verbal description of the events”
  2. noun The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  3. noun A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized. “The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.”
  4. noun (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science. “The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.”
  5. noun (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
  6. noun (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.

Synonyms

portrait sort kind type variety verbal description

Etymology

From Middle English descripcioun, from Old French description and its etymon, Latin dēscrīptiō, noun of action of dēscrībō (“to describe”). Equivalent to describe + -tion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  2. noun A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Etymology [F. description, L. descriptio. See Describe.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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