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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deputy

/ˈdɛpjəti/ noun, verb

Forms deputies deputying deputied deputee

  1. noun One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office. “the deputy of a prince”
  2. noun (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
  3. noun (government) The name for a member of legislature in some countries. “The State Duma comprises 450 deputies.”
  4. noun A member of the French National Assembly.
  5. noun (historical) A member of the French Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
  6. noun (Ireland, often capitalized) A member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. “Eamon Ryan is a deputy in the Dáil.”
  7. noun (US, law enforcement) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency. “The sheriff's deputies took the suspect into custody.”
  8. verb (informal, nonstandard) to deputise

Synonyms

lieutenant representative delegate vice vicegerent number two substitute legate envoy agent emissary proxy secondary solicitor surrogate deputy sheriff

Antonyms

client principal

Etymology

From French député, from Late Latin dēputātus (“appointed”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc. There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. 1 Kings xxii. 47.
  2. noun A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France] Chamber of Deputies, one of the two branches of the French legilative assembly; --formerly called Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

Etymology [F. député, fr. LL. deputatus. See Depute.]

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

Sanskrit

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