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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censor

UK /ˈsɛnsə/ · US /ˈsɛnsɚ/ noun, verb

Forms censors censoring censored censour

  1. noun (Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality. “The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.”
  2. noun (Ancient China, historical) A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
  3. noun An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media. “The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied.”
  4. noun (education) A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution.
  5. noun (obsolete) One who censures or condemns.
  6. noun (computing) An algorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc. “I tried using a dirty word as my user name for the online game, but the censor rejected it.”
  7. verb To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive). “The people responsible for censoring films have seen some startling things in their time.”
  8. verb (statistics, chiefly passive voice) To partially obscure an observation. “Early dropout is one cause of right-censoring.”
  9. noun (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind.

Synonyms

censorian censurer bowdlerize expurgate expunge redact ban

Antonyms

decensor

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from Latin cēnsor (“magistrate; critic”), from cēnseō (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”) + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit शंसति (śaṃsati, “to declare”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

From an incorrect translation of German Zensur (“censorship”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
  2. noun One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; --an official in some European countries.

Etymology [L. censor, fr. censere to value, tax.]

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