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

expression

/əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/ noun

Forms expressions

  1. noun The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
  2. noun A particular way of phrasing an idea.
  3. noun A colloquialism or idiom. “The expression "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.”
  4. noun A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion. “They stared at the newcomer with a puzzled expression.”
  5. noun (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
  6. noun (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
  7. noun (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
  8. noun A specific blend of whisky.

Synonyms

look aspect facial expression face manifestation reflection reflexion verbal expression verbalism saying locution formulation formula construction grammatical construction

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressiō, expressiōnem (“a pressing out”).
Morphologically express + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
  2. noun The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will.

Etymology [L. expressio. cf. F. expression.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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