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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transient

UK /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/ · US /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/ adjective, noun

Forms transients

  1. adjective Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. “a transient pleasure”
  2. adjective Remaining for only a brief time. “a transient view of a landscape”
  3. adjective (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
  4. adjective (physics, technology) unsteady, [[nonsteady|non-]-steady-state]].
  5. adjective (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
  6. adjective Occasional; isolated; one-off
  7. adjective Passing through; passing from one person to another.
  8. adjective (music) Intermediate.
  9. noun Something that is transient.
  10. noun (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
  11. noun (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
  12. noun A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
  13. noun A homeless person.
  14. noun (programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
  15. noun (Philippines) A homestay.

Synonyms

brief ephemeral fleeting flighty fugacious passing transitory temporary itinerant migrant traveller homeless momentary transeunt short-lived

Antonyms

permanent chronic inveterate recurrent immanent

Etymology

From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of trānsīre (“to go over, to pass”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. "Measured this transient world." Milton.
  2. adjective Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.
  3. noun That which remains but for a brief time. Glanvill.

Etymology [L. transiens, -entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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