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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Job

UK /dʒɒb/ · US /dʒɑb/ proper noun, noun, verb

Forms Jobs jobbing jobbed j*b

  1. proper noun (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
  2. proper noun A male given name from Hebrew.
  3. proper noun (biblical, Islam) A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.
  4. noun (figurative) A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.
  5. noun A task. “I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?”
  6. noun An economic role for which a person is paid. “That surgeon has a great job.”
  7. noun (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery. “He had a nose job.”
  8. noun (in noun compounds) A sex act. “hand job”
  9. noun (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  10. noun A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
  11. noun (informal) A robbery or heist. “a bank job”
  12. noun Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  13. verb (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  14. verb (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
  15. verb (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
  16. verb (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  17. verb (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. “We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.”
  18. verb (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
  19. verb To hire or let in periods of service. “to job a carriage”
  20. verb (intransitive, now rare, regional) To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).

Synonyms

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Etymology

From Latin Iob, from Ancient Greek Ἰώβ (Iṓb), from Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ), related to אָיַב (ʾāyaḇ, “to be an enemy”) and אוֹיֵב (ʾōyēḇ, “enemy”).

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

Imitative.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
  2. noun A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
  3. verb To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. L'Estrange.
  4. verb To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. Moxon.

Etymology [Prov. E. job, gob, n., a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See Gob.]

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