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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monitor

UK /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/ · US /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms monitors monitoring monitored monitour

  1. noun Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone. “The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.”
  2. noun A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
  3. noun (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer. “The information flashed up on the monitor.”
  4. noun A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
  5. noun (computing) A program for viewing and editing. “a machine code monitor”
  6. noun (computing, dated) The command line interface of an operating system.
  7. noun (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in UK) A student leader in a class.
  8. noun (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
  9. verb (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
  10. proper noun Any of several publications e.g. the "Christian Science Monitor".
  11. proper noun (Freemasonry) A text of works or instruction which are not secret and may be written e.g. "Indiana Monitor and Freemasons' Guide".

Synonyms

oversee supervise track proctor admonisher reminder monitoring device monitor lizard varan

Etymology

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
  2. noun Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.

Etymology [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.]

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

Sanskrit

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