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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agent

/ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt/ noun, proper noun

Forms agents

  1. noun One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
  2. noun (law) One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them. “He worked as an agent for the government.”
  3. noun A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
  4. noun Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
  5. noun An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
  6. noun (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
  7. noun (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
  8. noun (gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

manager representative rep doer actor performer factor broker federal agent agentive role

Antonyms

patient recipient undergoer

Etymology

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

Occupational surname, from agent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.
  2. noun One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
  3. noun One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

Etymology [L. agens, agentis, p. pr. of agere to act; akin to Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj. Defn: Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic]

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

Sanskrit

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

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