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

development

/dɪˈvɛl.əp.mənt/ noun

Forms developments developement

  1. noun (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change. “The development of this story has been slow.”
  2. noun (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells. “The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.”
  3. noun (countable) Something which has developed. “Our news team brings you the latest developments.”
  4. noun (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
  5. noun (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
  6. noun (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research). “Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.”
  7. noun (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it. “White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.”
  8. noun (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.

Synonyms

conversion metamorphosis transformation transfiguration transfigurement transmogrification transmutation sea change evolution growth growing maturation ontogeny ontogenesis exploitation developing

Antonyms

antidevelopment nondevelopment undevelopment

Etymology

From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.
  2. noun The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.

Etymology [Cf. F. développement.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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