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

“regulations” is a form of

regulation

/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/ noun, adjective

Forms regulations

  1. noun (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
  2. noun (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization. “Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.”
  3. noun (law, often in the plural) A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
  4. noun (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation. “Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.”
  5. noun (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
  6. noun (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
  7. noun (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
  8. adjective In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

Synonyms

ordinance rule regularization regularisation regulating

Etymology

From regulate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
  2. noun A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school. Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.

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

Sanskrit

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