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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partial

UK /ˈpɑːʃəl/ · US /ˈpɑɹʃəl/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms partials participle (US) partialing partialling participle (US) partialed partialled

  1. adjective Existing as a part or portion; incomplete. “So far, I have only pieced together a partial account of the incident.”
  2. adjective (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates. “It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.”
  3. adjective Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute. “The referee is blatantly partial!”
  4. adjective (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
  5. adjective (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
  6. adjective (botany) Subordinate.
  7. adjective (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
  8. noun (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
  9. noun (quantum mechanics, acoustics, music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
  10. noun (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
  11. noun (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
  12. noun (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
  13. noun (bodybuilding) A repetition of an exercise during which the range of motion (amplitude) is not maximized.
  14. noun (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
  15. verb (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.

Synonyms

partite fractional demi- semi- nonimpartial fond half rep partial derivative overtone partial tone

Antonyms

impartial

Etymology

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.
  2. adjective Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.

Etymology [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See Part, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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