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

fixation

/fɪksˈeɪʃən/ noun

Forms fixations

  1. noun The act of fixing.
  2. noun The state of being fixed or fixated.
  3. noun The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
  4. noun The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
  5. noun In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
  6. noun A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
  7. noun A sexual fetish or turn-on.
  8. noun (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law. “In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.”

Synonyms

fixedness freezing gelling obsession arrested development infantile fixation regression fixing

Antonyms

movement change

Etymology

From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
  2. noun The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; --said of gaseous elements.

Etymology [Cf. F. fixation.]

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

Sanskrit

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