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单词 er
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erexclamation

uk/ɜːr/us/ɝː/

the sound that people often make when they pause in the middle of what they are saying or pause before they speak, often because they are deciding what to say:

"What time shall we meet this evening?" "Er, eight-ish?"
"Is he handsome?" "Er, well - he's got a nice friendly sort of face, though he's not exactly handsome."

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Linguistics: sounds used as interjections

  • achoo
  • bam
  • blah
  • boohoo
  • cor
  • duh
  • eww
  • hah
  • oops
  • ow
  • phooey
  • shush
  • tsk
  • tut
  • uh
  • uh-oh
  • uh-uh
  • whoops
  • yada yada yada
  • zzz

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ERnoun [ C usually singular ]

uk/ˌiːˈɑːr/us/ˌiːˈɑːr/

ER noun [ C usually singular ] (HOSPITAL)

US abbreviation for emergency room

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Medical places & organizations

  • A & E
  • asylum
  • ear, nose, and throat
  • emergency room
  • ENT
  • Harley Street
  • health maintenance organization
  • ICU
  • intensive care
  • lunatic asylum
  • madhouse
  • Medicare
  • mental hospital
  • operating room
  • outpatients
  • sanitarium
  • socialized medicine
  • surgery
  • the funny farm
  • theatre

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ER noun [ C usually singular ] (THE QUEEN)

abbreviation for Elizabeth Regina: Queen Elizabeth II

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Royalty, aristocracy & titles

  • accession
  • archduke
  • aristocracy
  • aristocrat
  • baron
  • ennoble
  • esquire
  • grace
  • hereditary peer
  • Highness
  • Mr
  • Mrs
  • nobility
  • noble
  • nobleman
  • sire
  • sovereign
  • squire
  • sultan
  • throne

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-ersuffix

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-er suffix (PERFORMER)

also -or added to some verbs to form nouns that refer to people or things that do that particular activity:

a singer (= a person who sings)
a swimmer (= a person who swims)
a dishwasher (= a machine or person that washes dishes)
an actor (= a person who acts)

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Acting and acts

  • (your) every move idiom
  • -ation
  • act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
  • action
  • activity
  • agency
  • ant
  • be up to sth idiom
  • feel
  • gambit
  • give yourself over/up to sth
  • go about sth
  • go about your business idiom
  • go through with sth
  • hand
  • initiative
  • manoeuvre
  • manoeuvring
  • money
  • up to

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-er suffix (SPECIALIST)

added to the names of particular subjects to form nouns that refer to people who have knowledge about or are studying that subject:

a philosopher (= a person who knows about/studies philosophy)
an astronomer (= a person who knows about/studies astronomy)

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Experts and specialists

  • a mine of information idiom
  • academician
  • authority
  • boffin
  • buff
  • child prodigy
  • consultant
  • hotshot
  • know sth inside out idiom
  • literati
  • maven
  • natural
  • resident
  • superuser
  • supremo
  • techie
  • technician
  • technocracy
  • technocrat
  • virtuoso

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-er suffix (FROM A PLACE)

added to the names of particular places to form nouns referring to people who come from those places:

a Londoner (= a person who comes from London)
a northerner (= a person who comes from the north)

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People who live or settle somewhere

  • asylum seeker
  • brain drain
  • bum
  • city slicker
  • cohabitant
  • cottager
  • foreign-returned
  • frontiersman
  • guest worker
  • illegal alien
  • illegal immigrant
  • lodger
  • outflow
  • overspill
  • resident
  • roomer
  • settler
  • son
  • squatter
  • welcome wagon

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-er suffix (INVOLVED WITH)

added to nouns or adjectives to form nouns referring to people who are connected or involved with that particular thing:

a pensioner (= a person who receives a pension)
first graders (= children who are in the first grade of an American school)

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Linking and relating

  • affiliated
  • AL
  • appertain to sth
  • applicable
  • apply
  • associate
  • associated
  • bond
  • connection
  • context
  • interplay
  • interrelate
  • interrelationship
  • kindred
  • leveller
  • the same/that goes for sb/sth idiom
  • tie (sth) in
  • tie-in
  • tie-up
  • topology

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-er suffix (CHARACTERISTICS)

added to nouns to form nouns or adjectives referring to people or things that have those particular characteristics:

a double-decker (= a bus with two decks)
a big-spender (= someone who spends a lot of money)

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Conditions and characteristics

  • -ance
  • -ancy
  • -ness
  • ability
  • ambience
  • attribute
  • character
  • complexion
  • condition
  • detail
  • feature
  • hallmark
  • lineament
  • local colour
  • middle name
  • mien
  • nature
  • resonate
  • smack
  • tenor

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