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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officer

UK /ˈɒf.ɪ.sə/ · US /ˈɔ.fɪ.sɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms officers officering officered officah officuh

  1. noun One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
  2. noun A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.
  3. noun One who holds a public office.
  4. noun An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
  5. noun (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
  6. verb (transitive) To supply with officers.
  7. verb (transitive) To command as or like an officer.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun A suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Cardinia, Victoria, Australia

Synonyms

direct conduct manage military officer officeholder policeman police officer ship's officer

Etymology

From Middle English officer, from Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Old French officer, Late Latin officiarius (“official”), from Latin officium (“office”) + -ārius (“-er”). By surface analysis, office + -er.

# (countable) A term of address or title for a police officer or sometimes a security guard or other authority figure.
Officer Smith, please help me!

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. "I am an officer of state." Shak.
  2. noun Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day (Mil.), the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp.
  3. verb To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. Marshall.
  4. verb To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

Etymology [F. officier. See Office, and cf. Official, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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