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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summary

/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms summaries

  1. adjective Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form. “A summary review is in the appendix.”
  2. adjective Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality. “They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.”
  3. adjective (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework. “The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.”
  4. noun An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material. “I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.”
  5. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

summative summarizing[participial adjective|part. adj.]]> abstractive extrajudicial précis upshot bottom line short form abridgment abstract compendium conspectus digest epitome outline overview résumé synopsis the long and short tl;dr sum-up drumhead compendious compact succinct

Etymology

From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).

From Medieval Latin summārium, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārium (suffix forming nouns of purpose).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
  2. adjective Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.
  3. noun A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

Etymology [Cf. F. sommaire. See Sum.]

Etymology [F. sommaire, or L. summarium. See Summary, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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