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

selection

/səˈlɛkʃən/ noun

Forms selections

  1. noun The process or act of selecting. “The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.”
  2. noun Something selected. “My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.”
  3. noun A variety of items taken from a larger collection. “I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.”
  4. noun A musical piece. “For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.”
  5. noun (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
  6. noun (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.
  7. noun (computing) A list of items on which user operations will take place.
  8. noun (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

Synonyms

option subset number piece choice pick survival survival of the fittest natural selection excerpt excerption extract

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiō (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“apart”) + legō (“gather, select”). Equivalent to select + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
  2. noun That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. (Biol.) See under Natural.

Etymology [L. selectio: cf. F. sélection.]

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

Sanskrit

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