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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proctor

/ˈpɹɒktə(ɹ)/ noun, verb, proper noun, adjective

Forms proctors proctoring proctored proctour Procter

  1. noun (Canada, US, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
  2. noun (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
  3. noun (UK, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
  4. noun (obsolete) One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
  5. noun A procurator or manager for another.
  6. noun A representative of the clergy in convocation.
  7. verb (Canada, US, Philippines) to function as a proctor
  8. verb (transitive) to manage as an attorney or agent
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lee County, Kentucky.
  11. proper noun A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, named after J. Proctor Knott.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Missouri.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Plunketts Creek Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
  14. proper noun A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
  15. proper noun A census-designated place in Comanche County, Texas.
  16. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Rutland County, Vermont.
  17. adjective (soil science) Pertaining to the Proctor test, a standardized test measuring soil moisture-density, especially for the requirements of construction projects.

Synonyms

invigilator monitor invigilate

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English procatour, procutour, contraction of procuratour; compare proxy. Doublet of procurator and procurer.

The soil test was originally developed by Ralph R. Proctor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
  2. verb To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.

Etymology [OE. proketour, contr. fr. procurator. See Procurator.]

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