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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moderator

/ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/ noun

Forms moderators moderatour

  1. noun Someone who moderates.
  2. noun An arbitrator or mediator.
  3. noun The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
  4. noun (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
  5. noun The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
  6. noun (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
  7. noun A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
  8. noun (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Synonyms

mod

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh.
  2. noun The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.

Etymology [L.: cf. F. modérateur.]

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