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

pitcher

UK /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ · US /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of picture pitch

Forms pitchers

  1. noun One who pitches (in any sense) anything “A tent pitcher”
  2. noun (baseball, softball, pesäpallo) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
  3. noun (slang) A drug dealer.
  4. noun (obsolete, UK, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
  5. noun (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
  6. noun (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
  7. noun One who makes a pitch or proposal. “The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.”
  8. noun (obsolete, UK, slang) A person who sells anything in the streets.
  9. noun A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
  10. noun (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

snide pitcher top hurler twirler ewer pitcherful mound

Etymology

From pitch + -er.

From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
  2. noun A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] Mortimer.
  3. noun A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
  4. noun A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia.

Etymology [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehhari; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf. Beaker.]

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

Sanskrit

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