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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transparent

/tɹænsˈpæɹənt/ adjective, noun

Forms transparents

  1. adjective (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. “The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.”
  2. adjective (graphic design) Of a graphical image or animated GIF, having parts that allow the background to show through.
  3. adjective (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
  4. adjective Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand. “His reasons for the decision were transparent.”
  5. adjective (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
  6. adjective (computing) Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.
  7. noun Something that is transparent.
  8. noun (nonstandard) A transgender or transsexual parent.

Synonyms

apparent clear obvious see-through diaphanous crystalline limpid sheer clear as crystal glassy hyaline hyaloid lucid pellucid perspicuous serene transpicuous vitreous crystal clear filmy gauzy gauze-like gossamer vaporous vapourous cobwebby guileless

Antonyms

opaque obscure nontransparent non-transparent hazy translucent

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene.

From trans- (“transgender or transsexual”) + parent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; --opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.
  2. adjective Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil. Dryden.

Etymology [F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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