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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umpire

UK /ˈʌm.paɪə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈʌm.paɪɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms umpires umpiring umpired

  1. noun An official who presides over a sports match.
  2. noun (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
  3. noun (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
  4. noun (baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game. “The umpire called the pitch a strike.”
  5. noun (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side. “The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.”
  6. noun (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. There may be up to four umpires depending on the league. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
  7. noun (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
  8. noun (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
  9. verb (sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.
  10. verb (transitive) To decide as an umpire.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas, United States, named for the umpire of a baseball game.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wright County, Missouri, United States. Origin of the name unknown.

Synonyms

arbitrate settle Busby ump arbiter arbitrator referee

Etymology

From a Middle English rebracketing of a noumper as an oumper, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.
  2. noun A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone.
  3. verb To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.
  4. verb To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.

Etymology [OE. nompere, nounpere (also impier, fr. F. impair uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence the meaning, uneven, i. e., third person; non not + OF. per even, equal, peer, F. pair; cf. L. impar uneven, unequal. See Non-, and Peer, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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