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

“elim” is a form of

elimination

/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ noun

Forms eliminations

  1. noun The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
  2. noun The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. “Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.”
  3. noun (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
  4. noun (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  5. noun (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
  6. noun (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
  7. noun (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Synonyms

riddance evacuation excretion excreting voiding reasoning by elimination liquidation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.)
  2. noun the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

Etymology [Cf. F. élimination.]

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

Sanskrit

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