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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award

UK /əˈwɔːd/ · US /əˈwɔɹd/ noun, verb

Forms awards awarding awarded

  1. noun (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
  2. noun (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
  3. noun (academia) Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
  4. noun A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
  5. noun (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
  6. verb (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
  7. verb (transitive) To give (an award). “Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.”
  8. verb (transitive) To give (a person) an award. “He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.”
  9. verb (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case. “The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.”
  10. verb (transitive, UK, education) (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer. “Do not award marks for data from previous questions.”

Synonyms

conclusion decision verdict censure choice opinion deduction determination ergotism illation inference judgement/judgment mind result sight take view crown bestow laurel awarding accolade honor honour laurels prize present grant

Etymology

From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
  2. verb To determine; to make an ~.
  3. noun A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted."Impatient for the award." Cowper.
  4. noun The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. Bouvier.

Etymology [OF. eswarder to look at, consider, decide, judge; es (L. ex) + warder, garder, to observe, take heed, keep, fr. OHG. wart to watch, guard. See Ward.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. award, awart, esgart. See Award, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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