Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

crevasse

/kɹəˈvæs/ noun, verb

Forms crevasses crevassing crevassed

noun A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
noun (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
noun (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.
noun (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
verb (intransitive) To form crevasses.
verb (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.

Etymology

From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

noun A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
noun A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]

Etymology [F. See Crevice.]

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