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.

eat out

/it aʊt/ verb

Forms eats out eating out ate out eaten out

verb (intransitive) To dine at a restaurant or such public place. “Jacky wanted Korean barbecue, but his mom didn't want to eat out.”
verb (transitive) To erode or encroach upon by gradually consuming.
verb (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform cunnilingus or anilingus. “The lesbian couple ate each other out.”
verb (transitive, slang) To reprimand severely. “He will eat me out if he hears I ate his girlfriend out.”
verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out.

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “eat out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details