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

“appointing” is a form of

appoint

/əˈpɔɪnt/ verb

Forms appoints appointing appointed

  1. verb (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
  2. verb (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
  3. verb (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
  4. verb (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
  5. verb (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
  7. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

Synonyms

make name designate accredit allot assign choose command decide decree delegate direct elect enjoin employ equip furnish install nominate ordain constitute charge

Antonyms

decline disallow dismiss fire ignore neglect refuse reject revoke terminate unfurnish

Etymology

From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.
  2. verb To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15.
  3. verb To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Etymology [OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; L. ad + punctum a point. See Point.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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