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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minimum

UK /ˈmɪnɪməm/ · US /ˈmɪnəməm/ noun, adjective

Forms minima minimums

  1. noun The lowest limit. “We prefer candidates with a minimum of 4 years experience in the field.”
  2. noun The smallest amount. “He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.”
  3. noun (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). “The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth.”
  4. noun (mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. noun (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
  6. adjective To the lowest degree.

Synonyms

minimal lower limit

Antonyms

maximum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin minimum, neuter form of minimus (“least, smallest”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; --opposed to Ant: maximum.
  2. noun , a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since its last adjustment.

Etymology [L., fr. minimus. See Minim.]

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

Sanskrit

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