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

identical

/ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms identicals

  1. adjective (not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable. “My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.”
  2. adjective (not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
  3. adjective (not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
  4. adjective (not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
  5. adjective (comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
  6. noun (usually pluralized, chiefly philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
  7. noun An identical twin.
  8. noun (poetry) A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".

Synonyms

same selfsame monozygotic monovular indifferent nondifferent one and the same self undifferent undifferentiated indistinguishable very superposable

Antonyms

contrasting different distinct non-identical opposite fraternal

Etymology

From identic + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.
  2. adjective Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.

Etymology [Cf. F. identique. See Identity.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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