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

“limitations” is a form of

limitation

/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/ noun

Forms limitations

  1. noun The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
  2. noun A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance. “Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.”
  3. noun An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
  4. noun (law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought. “The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.”

Synonyms

prescription restriction limit

Antonyms

limitlessness

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
  2. noun That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.

Etymology [L. limitatio: cf. F. Limitation. See Limit, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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