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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loss

/lɒs/ noun

Also a form of loess lost

Forms losses

  1. noun (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. “loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
  3. noun (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined. “It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.”
  4. noun (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated. “The match ended in their first loss of the season.”
  5. noun (countable) The death of a person or animal. “We mourn his loss.”
  6. noun (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. “Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.”
  7. noun (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance. “The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.”
  8. noun (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. “The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.”

Synonyms

expense deperdition forlesing deprivation red ink red personnel casualty passing departure exit expiration going release

Antonyms

gain win victory profit acquisition

Etymology

From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”).
Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.

Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
  2. noun The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

Etymology [AS. los loss, losing, fr. leósan to lose. Lose, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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