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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pointer

UK /ˈpɔɪn.tə/ · US /ˈpɔɪn.təɹ/ noun, proper noun

Forms pointers

  1. noun One who points.
  2. noun A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.
  3. noun A needlelike component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.
  4. noun (hunting) Any of several breeds of hunting dog, trained to point out game; an individual of such a breed.
  5. noun (programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
  6. noun (graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.
  7. noun (chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice. “The instructor gave me some pointers on writing a good paper.”
  8. noun Something that gives a point (sharp end) to something. “pencil pointer”
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

fescue hand needle indicator reference cursor advice hint arrow Spanish pointer

Etymology

From point + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, points. Specifically: (a) The hand of a timepiece.
  2. noun The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star. See Illust. of Ursa Major. (b) pl. (Naut.)

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

Sanskrit

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