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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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volt

UK /vəʊlt/ · US /voʊlt/ noun, verb

Forms volts volting volted

  1. noun In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
  2. noun A bright yellow-green colour often used in Nike products.
  3. noun (archaic, equestrianism) A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.
  4. noun (archaic, fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.
  5. verb (archaic, equestrianism) To perform this movement.
  6. verb (archaic, fencing) To perform this movement.
  7. noun The pan-European party Volt Europa.

Synonyms

V

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

From French volte.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
  2. noun A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
  3. noun The unit of electro-motive force; --defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampère. It is practically equivalent to

Etymology [F. volte; cf. It. volta. See Vault.]

Etymology [After Alessandro Volta, the Italian electrician.]

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