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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controller

UK /kənˈtɹəʊlə/ · US /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/ noun

Forms controllers

  1. noun One who controls something.
  2. noun (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
  3. noun (business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  4. noun (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  5. noun (video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
  6. noun (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
  7. noun (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
  8. noun (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)

Synonyms

administrator chief foreman head head man organizer overseer superintendent supervisor driver game controller comptroller accountant restrainer control

Etymology

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Doublet of comptroller. By surface analysis, control + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
  2. noun An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [More commonly written controller.]

Etymology [From control, v.t.: cf. F. contrôleur.]

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