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

striker

/ˈstɹaɪkɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms strikers

  1. noun A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
  2. noun A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
  3. noun A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
  4. noun A piece of metal struck against a flint or ferrocerium to produce sparks.
  5. noun A piece of rough material on which matches are struck (that is, against which the matchhead is rubbed).
  6. noun A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
  7. noun (firearms, military) A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
  8. noun (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

turnout firestriker steel firesteel forward attacker centre forward front man green hand promiscuous man hitter

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge.
  2. noun A harpoon; also, a harpooner.

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

Sanskrit

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