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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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waive

/weɪv/ verb, noun

Forms waives waiving waived wave

  1. verb (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. “If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.”
  2. verb (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
  3. verb (Canada, US, sports) To release [a player] onto the waiver wire
  4. verb (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
  5. verb (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  6. verb (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
  7. verb (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  8. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
  9. noun (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  10. noun (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

Synonyms

abandon abdicate abjure cede dismiss disregard dissolve forgo give up let go put aside relinquish renounce surrender terminate yield forego foreswear dispense with forfeit throw overboard

Antonyms

accept admit approve submit

Etymology

From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.

From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.

From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne.
  2. noun A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  3. verb To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
  4. verb To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

Etymology [See Waive, v. t.]

Etymology [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. Vibrate, Waif.]

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