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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commission

/kəˈmɪʃən/ noun, verb

Forms commissions commissioning commissioned

  1. noun A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
  2. noun An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers. “David received his commission after graduating from West Point.”
  3. noun The thing to be done as agent for another. “I have three commissions for the city.”
  4. noun A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function. “the European Commission”
  5. noun A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction. “a reseller's commission”
  6. noun (commerce) A bonus in pay awarded to a salesperson for selling a particular, secretly sponsored product, for which the sponsor will reimburse the employer.
  7. noun (art) A payment by a fan to an artist, after which the artist will produce a work of art requested by the fan.
  8. noun The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error). “the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism”
  9. verb (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something. “James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.”
  10. verb (transitive) To place an order for (often a piece of art). “He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.”
  11. verb (transitive) To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service. “The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.”
  12. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) A shirt or chemise.

Synonyms

committee spiff percentage commissioning deputation delegation delegacy mission charge direction military commission perpetration committal

Antonyms

omission

Etymology

From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from committō + -tiō (suffix forming nouns of action), from com- (“with”) + mittō (“to send”).

Compare Italian camicia and Romanian cămeșă.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
  2. noun The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
  3. verb To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
  4. verb To send out with a charge or commission.

Etymology [F., fr. L. commissio. See Commit.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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