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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interview

UK /ˈɪn.tə.vjuː/ · US /ˈɪn.(t)ɚ.vju/ noun, verb

Forms interviews interviewing interviewed

  1. noun (obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.
  2. noun Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.
  3. noun A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc. “The reporter gave the witness an interview.”
  4. noun A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant. “It was a dreadful interview; I have no hope of getting the job.”
  5. noun An audition.
  6. noun A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.
  7. verb (transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview. “He interviewed the witness.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview. “She always interviews well.”

Synonyms

audience consultation question

Etymology

From Old French entreveue (French entrevue), feminine singular past participle of entrevëoir, from entre- + vëoir (“to see”). Equivalent to inter- + view.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President.
  2. noun A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited.
  3. verb To have an interview with; to question or converse with, especially for the purpose of obtaining information for publication.

Etymology [F. entrevue, fr. entrevoir to see imperfectly, to have a glimpse of, s'entrevoir to visit each other. See Inter-, and View.]

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

Sanskrit

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