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

difference

/ˈdɪf.(ə.)ɹəns/ noun, verb

Forms differences differencing differenced

  1. noun (uncountable) The quality of being different. “You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.”
  2. noun (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. “There are three differences between these two pictures.”
  3. noun (countable) A disagreement or argument. “We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.”
  4. noun (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. “It just won't make much difference to me.”
  5. noun (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. “The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.”
  6. noun (obsolete) Choice; preference.
  7. noun (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
  8. noun (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
  9. verb (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.
  10. verb (heraldry) to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another

Synonyms

departure deviation divergence disparity conflict difference of opinion dispute dissension nevermind remainder differentiation differentness distinction distinguishedness nonidentity unidenticality diversity differentiate distinguish

Antonyms

identity sameness identicality identicalness

Etymology

From Middle English difference, from Old French difference, from Latin differentia (“difference”), from differēns (“different”), present participle of differre. Doublet of differentia. Morphologically differ + -ence.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5.
  2. noun Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.
  3. verb To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.

Etymology [F. différence, L. differentia.]

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

Sanskrit

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