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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tolerance

UK /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ · US /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/ noun, verb

Forms tolerances tolerancing toleranced

  1. noun (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
  2. noun (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
  3. noun (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
  4. noun (uncountable) Resistance to drunkenness. “Since he hadn't had any alcohol in years, his tolerance was very low, and it only took two drinks for him to get sloshed.”
  5. noun (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. “Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.”
  6. noun (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
  7. verb To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

Synonyms

toleration forbearance permissiveness allowance leeway margin

Antonyms

intolerance

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English toleraunce, borrowed from Old French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerāns, present participle of, and participial adjective from Latin tolerō (“to endure”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
  2. noun The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

Etymology [L. tolerantia: cf. F. tolérance.]

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