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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collector

UK /kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/ · US /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms collectors collecter collectour

  1. noun A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. “She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.”
  2. noun A person who is employed to collect payments. “She works for the government as a tax collector.”
  3. noun A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
  4. noun (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  5. noun A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  6. noun (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  7. noun A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
  8. proper noun A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Synonyms

aggregator gatherer accumulator

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
  2. noun A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

Etymology [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.]

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

Sanskrit

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