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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volatile

UK /ˈvɒl.əˌtaɪl/ · US /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/ adjective, noun

Forms volatiles

  1. adjective (chemistry, physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
  2. adjective (informal) Of a substance, explosive.
  3. adjective (economics, finance) Of a price, variable or erratic.
  4. adjective Of a person, quick to become angry or violent. “a volatile man”
  5. adjective Fickle.
  6. adjective Temporary or ephemeral.
  7. adjective Of a situation potentially violent.
  8. adjective (programming) Of a variable etc., having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
  9. noun A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
  10. noun (programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.

Synonyms

furious rabid raging ferocious fierce rampant grim incessive infuriate savage wild changeable erratic unpredictable fleeting passing transitory earthly ephemeral brief explosive fickle

Antonyms

nonvolatile

Etymology

From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“to fly”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aëriform state; subject to evaporation.
  3. noun A winged animal; wild fowl; game. [Obs.] Chaucer. Sir T. Browne.

Etymology [F. volatil, L. volatilis, fr. volare to fly, perhaps akin to velox swift, E. velocity. Cf. Volley.]

Etymology [Cf. F. volatile.]

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

Sanskrit

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