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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charter

UK /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms charters chartering chartered chartre

  1. noun A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
  2. noun A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
  3. noun A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
  4. noun The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
  5. noun A deed (legal contract).
  6. noun A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
  7. noun (UK, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
  8. adjective Leased or hired.
  9. verb (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
  10. verb (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
  11. verb (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chirograph rent hire lease engage take

Etymology

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
  2. noun An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
  3. verb To establish by charter.
  4. verb To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.

Etymology [OF. chartre, F. chartre, charte, fr. L. chartula a little paper, dim. of charta. See Chart, Card.]

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

Sanskrit

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