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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functional

/ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/ adjective, noun

Forms functionals

  1. adjective In good working order.
  2. adjective Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function. “That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.”
  3. adjective Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture. “A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements.”
  4. adjective Of or relating to one's role or office; official. “functional responsibilities”
  5. adjective (physiology, psychology) Characterizing functioning in environment, being symptoms that do not presuppose alteration of organic structure.
  6. adjective Optimized for all-around physiological benefit. “functional coffee”
  7. adjective (mathematics) Of or relating to a function or functions.
  8. adjective (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
  9. noun (mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real- or complex-valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. “An example of a functional is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.”
  10. noun (mathematics, functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
  11. noun (computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

Synonyms

pure functioning working utilitarian in working order operational running like a top up usable useable operable running operative

Antonyms

imperative dysfunctional non-functional nonfunctional unfunctional organic out of order

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. Functional disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

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