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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receiver

UK /ɹɪˈsiː.və/ · US /ɹəˈsi.vɚ/ noun

Forms receivers

  1. noun (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
  2. noun A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
  3. noun A person who accepts stolen goods.
  4. noun A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
  5. noun (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
  6. noun (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
  7. noun Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
  8. noun (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.

Synonyms

insolvency administrator insolvency practitioner liquidator administrator court administrator trustee in bankruptcy receiving system telephone receiver recipient pass receiver pass catcher

Antonyms

transmitter

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who takes or receives in any manner.
  2. noun A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier.

Etymology [Cf. F. receveur.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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