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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

conductor

/kənˈdʌktɚ/ noun

Forms conductors conductour

  1. noun One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  2. noun (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
  3. noun (transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers. “train conductor”
  4. noun (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.
  5. noun (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
  6. noun A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  7. noun (architecture) A leader.

Synonyms

music director director

Antonyms

dielectric nonconductor insulator

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
  2. noun One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

Etymology [LL., a carrier, transporter, L., a lessee.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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