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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extension

/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/ noun

Forms extensions

  1. noun The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase. “Next month the house is undergoing an extension.”
  2. noun The state of being extended.
  3. noun That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
  4. noun (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
  5. noun (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
  6. noun A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
  7. noun An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities. “Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves”
  8. noun (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

Synonyms

denotation propagation extension service university extension filename extension file name extension reference lengthiness prolongation telephone extension extension phone elongation annex annexe wing

Antonyms

shortening limitation curl flexion

Etymology

From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
  2. noun That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.

Etymology [L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See Extend, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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