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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employ

/ɪmˈplɔɪ/ verb, noun

Forms employs employing employed imploy

  1. verb To retain (someone) as an employee. “Our company employs hundreds of people.”
  2. verb (rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire. “Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.”
  3. verb To use (someone or something) for a job or task. “The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.”
  4. verb To make busy; to preoccupy.
  5. noun The state of being an employee; employment. “The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.”
  6. noun (archaic) An occupation.
  7. noun (obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

Synonyms

apply use utilize occupy busy appoint bestow brook commission commit exercise exploit handle make use ply put to use spend suborn take advantage of wield employment utilise hire engage

Antonyms

discard disuse shun surrender

Etymology

From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (“to apply to a specific purpose”), from Anglo-Norman emploier, Old French emploiier (“to entangle, fabricate, to make use of”), ultimately from Latin implicāre (“to infold, entangle, involve, engage”), from in- (“in”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of imply and implicate.

Borrowed from French emploi (“job, employment”), the deverbal from employer (“to put to use, to employ”), first attested in the late 17th century.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. verb To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; --often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
  3. noun That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

Etymology [F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve, implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicate.]

Etymology [Cf. F. emploi.]

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

Sanskrit

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