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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persistence

/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/ noun

Forms persistences

  1. noun The property of being persistent. “You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.”
  2. noun (computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program. “Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.”
  3. noun (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
  4. noun (mathematics) The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state. “The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.”

Synonyms

persistency continuity doggedness perseverance tenacity tenaciousness pertinacity perseveration

Etymology

From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
  2. noun The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as: (a) (Physics)

Etymology [See Persistent.]

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

Sanskrit

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