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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recruit

UK /ɹɪˈkɹuːt/ · US /ɹɪˈkɹut/ noun, verb

Forms recruits recruiting recruited

  1. noun A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
  2. noun A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
  3. noun A hired worker “These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews”
  4. noun (biology, ecology) A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
  5. verb To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc. “We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products”
  6. verb To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster “the army was recruited for a campaign”
  7. verb (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
  8. verb (biology, intransitive) To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
  9. verb (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
  10. verb (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like. “Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.”

Synonyms

military recruit enlistee enroll inscribe enter enrol levy raise

Etymology

From French recruter (as a verb).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
  2. verb Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
  3. verb To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
  4. verb To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.

Etymology [F. recruter, corrupted (under influence of recrue recruiting, recruit, from recro, p.p. recr, to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend (a garment); pref. re- + OF. clut piece, piece of cloth; cf. Icel. kl kerchief, E. clout.]

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