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

incident

/ˈɪnsɪdənt/ noun, adjective

Forms incidents

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence. “She could not recall the time of the incident.”
  2. noun A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
  3. noun An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
  4. noun (often used in apposition) An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
  5. adjective Arising as the result of an event, inherent. “No major hazards incident to this job.”
  6. adjective (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface. “The incident light illuminated the surface.”
  7. adjective Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
  8. adjective Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
  9. adjective (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
  10. adjective (mathematics) In a relation of incidence

Synonyms

proceeding affair befalling episode instance event goings-on happening hap occasion occurrence incidental

Etymology

Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
  2. adjective Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
  3. noun That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
  4. noun That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

Etymology [L. incidens, -entis, p. pr. & of incidere to fall into or upon; pref. in- in, on + cadere to fall: cf. F. incident. See Cadence.]

Etymology [Cf. F. incident.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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