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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

runner

UK /ˈɹʌnə/ · US /ˈɹʌnɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms runners

  1. noun A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete. “The first runner to cross the finish line wins the race.”
  2. noun Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election. “The mare is the stables' runner for the 5.15 race at Epsom.”
  3. noun (poker slang) A competitor in a poker tournament.
  4. noun Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
  5. noun (chiefly in combination) A person or vessel that runs blockades or engages in smuggling. “The gunrunners were arrested leaving the airport.”
  6. noun (cricket) A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
  7. noun (baseball, softball) A baserunner. “The runner was out at second.”
  8. noun (Australian rules football) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

racer lugger picker-up roper steerer sneaker trainer rocker quick-draw extender smuggler contrabandist moon curser moon-curser base runner stolon offset ball carrier blue runner Caranx crysos

Etymology

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).
((botany) a long stolon sent by a plant): Compare typologically Russian побе́г (pobég) (akin to бежа́ть (bežátʹ)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  2. noun A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

Etymology [From Run.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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