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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operator

UK /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/ · US /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/ noun

Forms operators

  1. noun A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc. “The drone crashed because of operator error.”
  2. noun A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers. “To get an international line, you used to have to go through the operator.”
  3. noun A member of a military special operations unit.
  4. noun A surgeon; one who performs medical operations.
  5. noun (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
  6. noun (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
  7. noun (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.
  8. noun (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

Synonyms

manipulator hustler wheeler dealer

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin operātor, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
  2. noun One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

Etymology [L.]

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

Sanskrit

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