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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sequence

UK /ˈsiː.kwəns/ · US /ˈsi.kwəns/ noun, verb

Forms sequences sequencing sequenced

  1. noun A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series. “An alphabet follows a sequence.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession. “Complete the listed tasks in sequence.”
  3. noun A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
  4. noun A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
  5. noun (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
  6. noun (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
  7. noun A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
  8. noun (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
  9. verb (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order. “We sequenced the code to keep it organised.”
  10. verb (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
  11. verb (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
  12. verb (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.

Synonyms

array chain procession consecution series string succession train chronological sequence successiveness chronological succession episode

Antonyms

hodgepodge

Etymology

From Middle English sequence, from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequēns (“following”), from sequī (“to follow”); see sequent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
  2. noun That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

Etymology [F. séquence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See Sequent.]

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

Sanskrit

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