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.

gaping

/ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of gape

Forms gapings

adjective Wide open. “There’s a gaping hole in the fence.”
adjective Having the jaw wide open, as in astonishment or stupefaction.
noun The act of one who gapes.
noun Something gaping; something agape.
noun A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.

Synonyms

From Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape + -ing.

From Middle English gapynge, equivalent to gape + -ing.

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

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