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

instance

/ˈɪnstəns/ noun, verb

Forms instances instancing instanced enstaunce instaunce

  1. noun (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
  2. noun (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
  3. noun (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
  4. noun (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
  5. noun An occasion; an order of occurrence.
  6. noun A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
  7. noun One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
  8. noun (computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
  9. verb (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to.
  10. verb (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
  11. verb (massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
  12. verb (transitive, computer graphics) To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.

Synonyms

adduce cite case example illustration representative exemplify illustrate

Antonyms

noninstance

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
  2. noun That which is instant or urgent; motive. [Obs.]
  3. verb To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact. H. Spenser.
  4. verb To give an example. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. instance, L. instantia, fr. instans. See Instant.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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