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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element

UK /ˈɛlɪmənt/ · US /ˈɛləmənt/ noun, verb

Forms elements elementing elemented

  1. noun One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. “Letters are the elements of written language.”
  2. noun (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
  3. noun (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
  4. noun One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
  5. noun (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
  6. noun (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
  7. noun (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
  8. noun (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
  9. verb To compound (something) out of elements.
  10. verb To constitute and be the elements of (something).

Synonyms

chemical element elementary substance member component constituent factor ingredient

Etymology

From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).
The verb is from Middle English elementen, from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
  2. noun One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.
  3. verb To compound of elements or first principles. [Obs.] "[Love] being elemented too." Donne.
  4. verb To constitute; to make up with elements.

Etymology [F. élément, L. elementum.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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