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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interpretation

UK /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/ · US /ɪnˌtɝpɹəˈteɪʃən/ noun

Forms interpretations

  1. noun (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version. “The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma”
  2. noun (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning. “Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.”
  3. noun (uncountable, linguistics, translation studies) The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
  4. noun (uncountable) The power of explaining.
  5. noun (countable) An artist's way of expressing thought or embodying a conception of nature through art.
  6. noun (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
  7. noun (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
  8. noun (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

Synonyms

gloss reading interpreting version rendition rendering

Etymology

From Middle English interpretacioun, from the Anglo-Norman form of Old French interpretacion, from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”). Morphologically interpret + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
  2. noun The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

Etymology [L. interpretatio: cf. F. interprétation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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