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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chaser

UK /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/ noun

Forms chasers

  1. noun Something or someone who chases.
  2. noun (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
  3. noun (equestrianism, obsolete) A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).
  4. noun (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind. “beer chaser”
  5. noun (timber industry, obsolete) Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled
  6. noun (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
  7. noun (slang, obsolete) A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.
  8. noun A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
  9. noun Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
  10. noun A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
  11. noun (nautical) A chase gun.

Synonyms

frogger prison chaser bug-chaser pursuer

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
  2. noun Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser.
  3. noun One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.
  4. noun A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

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