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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thickness

/ˈθɪknəs/ noun, verb

Forms thicknesses thicknessing thicknessed

  1. noun (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
  2. noun (uncountable, countable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is. “The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.”
  3. noun (countable) A layer. “We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.”
  4. noun (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency). “Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.”
  5. noun (uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
  6. noun (graph theory, countable) The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.
  7. verb (transitive) To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.

Synonyms

fatness depth layer stratum viscosity density denseness slowness stupidity thickheadedness heaviness

Antonyms

thinness fluidity liquidity runniness wateriness mental acuity mental agility quick-wittedness sharpness

Etymology

From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Etymology [AS. .]

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

Sanskrit

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

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