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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“Factors” is a form of

factor

UK /ˈfæk.tə/ · US /ˈfæk.təɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms factors factoring factored factour

  1. noun (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. “The factor of the trading post bought the furs.”
  2. noun An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
  3. noun A commission agent.
  4. noun A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
  5. noun A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
  6. noun One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result. “The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.”
  7. noun (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. “3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.”
  8. noun (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. “The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.”
  9. verb (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
  10. verb (transitive) To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
  11. verb (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
  12. verb (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

component constituent element ingredient divisor agent broker gene cistron factor in factor out

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English factour, from Middle French facteur, Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
  2. noun A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
  3. verb To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Etymology [L. factor a doer: cf. F. facteur a factor. See Fact.]

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