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

director

UK /dɪˈɹɛk.tə(ɹ)/ · US /dɪˈɹɛk.tɚ/ noun

Forms directors directer directour

  1. noun One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
  2. noun A member of a board of directors. “[...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...].”
  3. noun A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
  4. noun That which directs or orientates something.
  5. noun (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
  6. noun (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
  7. noun (electronics) A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.

Synonyms

manager managing director theater director theatre director film director conductor music director

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus. By surface analysis, direct + -or.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
  2. noun One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.

Etymology [Cf. F. directeur.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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