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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searcher

UK /ˈsɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈsɝt͡ʃɚ/ noun

Forms searchers

  1. noun One who searches.
  2. noun (UK, historical) An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
  3. noun (UK, historical) An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
  4. noun A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
  5. noun (UK, obsolete) An inspector of leather.
  6. noun (historical, military) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities in its surface.
  7. noun An implement for sampling butter.
  8. noun A sieve or strainer.

Synonyms

seeker quester searcher beetle Calosoma scrutator

Etymology

From Middle English serchour, sercher, from Old French cercheor; equivalent to search + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Specifically: (a) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. Graunt.

Etymology [Cf. OF. cercheor inspector.]

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

Sanskrit

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