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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proxy

UK /ˈpɹɒk.si/ · US /ˈpɹɑk.si/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms proxies proxying proxied

  1. adjective Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy. “a proxy indicator”
  2. noun An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
  3. noun The authority to act for another, especially when written.
  4. noun The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
  5. noun (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another.
  6. noun (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
  7. noun (card games) A card used to substitute for another card, when the latter is not available.
  8. verb To serve as a proxy for.
  9. verb (networking) To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.

Synonyms

deputy proxy mine placeholder procurator

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō (“to manage, administer”) (English procure). Compare proctor.

proximity + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
  2. noun The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
  3. verb To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another. [R.]

Etymology [Contr. from procuracy. Cf. Proctor.]

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

Sanskrit

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