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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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blob

UK /blɒb/ · US /blɑb/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms blobs blobbing blobbed the Blob

  1. noun A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  2. noun (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
  3. noun (dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
  4. noun A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
  5. noun The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
  6. noun (sports, slang) A score of zero.
  7. noun (as the blob) Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
  8. noun An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.
  9. verb (transitive) To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
  10. verb (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
  11. verb (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
  12. verb (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
  13. verb (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
  14. verb (intransitive) To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.
  15. proper noun (US, derogatory) The section of the elite class in Washington D.C. who have moved from political or regulatory work to lobbying firms or think tanks, especially in foreign policy or on the behalf of corporations.
  16. proper noun (UK, derogatory) The civil service and other public bodies, perceived as prone to groupthink and acting as an obstacle to government action; the deep state.
  17. proper noun A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was detected in 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.

Synonyms

bob spot fleck blot

Etymology

From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.

Formed as a backronym. See Object storage#Origins.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.
  2. noun A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

Etymology [See Bleb.]

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