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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diffusion

UK /dɪˈfjuː.ʒən/ · US /dɪˈfju.ʒən/ noun

Forms diffusions

  1. noun The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
  2. noun (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
  3. noun (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation. “gaseous diffusion”
  4. noun The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
  5. noun (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
  6. noun (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
  7. noun The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.

Synonyms

dissemination dispersion dispersal

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diffūsiō, from diffundō; can be decomposed as diffuse + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
  2. noun The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

Etymology [L. diffusio: cf. F. diffusion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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