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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variation

UK /ˌvɛəɹɪˈeɪʃn̩/ · US /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/ noun

Forms variations

  1. noun The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
  2. noun A related but distinct thing. “When the process didn't work, we tried a variation.”
  3. noun (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
  4. noun (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
  5. noun (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
  6. noun (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.
  7. noun (astronomy) Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
  8. noun (linguistics) The situation where two or more linguistic forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, the choice of form being determined by factors of dialect, sociolect, register or simply the speaker's preference.

Synonyms

magnetic declination fluctuation variance version variant edition magnetic variation mutant mutation sport pas seul

Etymology

From Middle French variation, from Old French variacion, from Latin variātiō, from vary + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
  2. noun Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.

Etymology [OE. variatioun, F. variation, L. variatio. See Vary.]

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

Sanskrit

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