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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

assignment

/əˈsaɪn.mənt/ noun

Forms assignments

  1. noun The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. “This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.”
  2. noun The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. “We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.”
  3. noun (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
  4. noun An assigned task. “The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.”
  5. noun A position to which one is assigned. “Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.”
  6. noun (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. “Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.”
  7. noun (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. “The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.”
  8. noun (law) A document that effects this transfer. “Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.”

Synonyms

duty assignment assigning grant appointment designation naming

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
  2. noun (a) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

Etymology [LL. assignamentum: cf. OF. assenement.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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