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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entity

UK /ˈɛn.tɪt.i/ · US /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi] noun, proper noun

Forms entities the Entity

  1. noun That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
  2. noun The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
  3. noun (databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
  4. noun The state or quality of being or existence. “The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.”
  5. noun A spirit, ghost, or the like.
  6. noun (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
  7. proper noun The central intelligence agency of the Holy See, which conducts foreign intelligence for the Vatican City and Catholic Church.
  8. proper noun (derogatory, slang) Israel (synonym of Zionist Entity).
  9. proper noun (sometimes, by extension) The United States and Israel, or the West as a whole, when viewed as synonymous with Israel.

Synonyms

SIV

Antonyms

nonentity variety

Etymology

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

* (Vatican intelligence): Translation of Italian l'Entità.
* (Israel): Ellipsis of Zionist entity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

Etymology [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens, entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entité. See Essence, Is.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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