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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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grapevine

/ˈɡɹeɪp.vaɪn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms grapevines grapevining grapevined grape vine grape-vine

  1. noun The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow. “Although many grapevines have geographical names, these rarely reflect their real origin, if known at all.”
  2. noun An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip. “I heard through the grapevine that Jim will be leaving soon.”
  3. noun (rare, apparently primarily Indian English) A rumor.
  4. noun (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
  5. noun (wrestling) A leglock.
  6. noun A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).
  7. verb (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.
  8. verb (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
  9. verb (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
  10. verb (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.
  11. verb (transitive, intransitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.
  12. verb (transitive, intransitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).
  13. verb (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Grant County, Arkansas.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, at the foot of a grade called The Grapevine.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
  17. proper noun A city in Tarrant County, Texas.

Synonyms

winetree jungle drums bush telegraph jungle telegraph mulga wire rumor mill pipeline word of mouth grape grape vine

Etymology

From grape + vine.

In Texas, from grapevine, referring to the wild grapes that grew in the area.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
  2. noun A suffix signifying something written, a writing; also, a writer; as autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.

Etymology [From Gr. gra`fein to write. See Graphic.]

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