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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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veto

UK /ˈviːtəʊ/ · US /ˈvi.toʊ/ noun, verb

Forms vetoes vetos vetoing vetoed

  1. noun A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  2. noun An invocation of that right.
  3. noun An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  4. noun A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
  5. verb (transitive) To use a veto against. “The president vetoed the bill.”
  6. verb (transitive) To countermand. “Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.”

Synonyms

blackball negative forbid prohibit interdict proscribe disallow nix

Etymology

From Latin vetō (“to forbid”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  2. noun Specifically: -- (a) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
  3. verb To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.

Etymology [L. veto I forbid.]

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