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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multiplier

UK [ˈmʌɫ.tɪˌplaɪ.ə(ɹ)] · US [ˈmʌɫ.tɪˌplaɪ.ɚ] noun

Forms multipliers

  1. noun One who multiplies or causes something to increase.
  2. noun (arithmetic) A number by which another (the multiplicand) is to be multiplied. “In the expression 5 × 7, the "5" is a multiplier.”
  3. noun (grammar) An adjective indicating the number of times something is to be multiplied. “English multipliers include "double" and "triple".”
  4. noun (economics) A ratio used to estimate total economic effect for a variety of economic activities.
  5. noun (physics) Any of several devices used to enhance a signal
  6. noun (physics, obsolete) a coil; when Johann Schweigger in 1820 invented the electric coil, increasing the electro-magnetic field from a single wire, this invention was called a multiplier.
  7. noun A multiplier onion.

Synonyms

multiplier factor

Etymology

Cf. F. multiplier. Cf. Multiplicator.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, multiplies or increases number.
  2. noun The number by which another number is multiplied. See the Note under Multiplication.

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

Sanskrit

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