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

picker

/ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Forms pickers Pickar

  1. noun A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
  2. noun (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something. “date picker”
  3. noun (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
  4. noun (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
  5. noun (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
  6. noun (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
  7. noun (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
  8. noun (archaic) A pilferer.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chooser selector

Etymology

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.

* From picker, an English occupational surname for someone who used a pick.
* Borrowed from German Picker, an occupational surname for someone who used a pickaxe.
* Borrowed from Dutch Picker, an occupational surname for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower.
* Jewish Ashkenazi nickname for a glutton, from Yiddish פּיקן (pikn, “to peck”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, --as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. "Pickers and stealers." Shak.
  2. noun A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

Etymology [From Pick.]

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

Sanskrit

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