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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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diaper

UK /ˈdaɪ(ə).pə/ · US /ˈdaɪ(ə).pəɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms diapers diapering diapered diapre dieper dioper dipar dyaper dyapre dyeper dyoper

  1. noun (Canada, US, India, Philippines) An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, by an adult who is incontinent (who wets the bed), or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy. “cloth diaper, disposable diaper, nighttime diaper, swim diaper”
  2. noun (Canada, US, colloquial, sometimes humorous) A container that absorbs and collects (retains) liquid or waste material, similar to a diaper (noun sense 1). “engine diaper, meat diaper, period diaper, rubber diaper”
  3. noun (Canada, US, colloquial, humorous, possibly derogatory) A piece of clothing that resembles the shape of a diaper (noun sense 1) but lacks the absorbency.
  4. noun (historical) A textile fabric having a repeating pattern, especially of diamonds or flowers, formed by alternating directions of thread.
  5. noun (art, chiefly architecture, decorative arts, embroidery) A repeating geometrical or (often stylized) floral pattern, usually of small diamonds evenly spaced, that decorates a flat surface, sometimes in bas-relief; diaperwork.
  6. noun (heraldry, chiefly historical) A repeating geometrical or floral pattern, used to cover the surface of a shield and forming the ground for any charges.
  7. noun (obsolete) A towel, napkin, or tablecloth made from the diaper fabric (noun sense 4).
  8. verb (transitive) To put diapers on someone. “Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.”
  9. verb (transitive) To draw geometrical or floral patterns, as upon cloth.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

nappy napkin pampers diapie diamond twill fur diap diapee diapy didee didie diddy didy dipe hippins pamper dip gamer pants gaming pants omutsu

Etymology

From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with decorative patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).

A variant of the surnames Dipper and Dyper.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
  2. noun Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
  3. verb To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun.
  4. verb To put a diaper on (a child).

Etymology [OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L.jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper.]

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