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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strength

/ˈstɹɛŋθ/ noun, verb

Forms strengths strengthing strengthed

  1. noun The quality or degree of being strong. “It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.”
  2. noun The intensity of a force or power; potency. “He had the strength of ten men.”
  3. noun The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
  4. noun A positive attribute. “to play to one's strengths”
  5. noun (obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
  6. noun (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
  7. noun (graph theory) The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
  8. verb (obsolete) To strengthen (all senses).

Synonyms

ability asset capability expertise forte fortitude main potency power anneal brace consolidate build up confirm corroborate enstrengthen fortify harden intend indurate military capability military strength military posture posture force forcefulness strong suit long suit metier specialty

Antonyms

weakness

Etymology

From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
  2. noun Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; --in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like. "The brittle strength of bones." Milton.
  3. verb To strengthen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [OE. strengthe, AS. streng, fr. strang strong. See Strong.]

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

Sanskrit

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