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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administer

UK /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stə/ · US /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɚ/ verb

Forms administers administering administered administre

  1. verb (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
  2. verb (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
  3. verb (intransitive) To minister (to). “administering to the sick”
  4. verb (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  5. verb To give, as an oath.
  6. verb (transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means. “We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.”
  7. verb (transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

Synonyms

administrate distribute mete out deal parcel out lot dispense shell out deal out dish out allot dole out

Etymology

From Middle English administren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
  2. verb To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
  3. verb To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
  4. verb To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

Etymology [OE. aministren, OF. aministrer, F. administer, fr. L. administrare; ad + ministrare to serve. See Minister.]

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

Sanskrit

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