Klryz
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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

headline

/ˈhɛd.laɪn/ noun, verb

Forms headlines headlining headlined head-line head line

  1. noun (nautical, obsolete) Any of various type of rope used to attach a sail to a yard.
  2. noun (nautical) A rope or chain used to attach the bow of a vessel to the shore or to another vessel.
  3. noun A rope tied to the head of an animal.
  4. noun (palmistry, usually as two words) A line stretching diagonally across the palm, said to represent mental or intellectual matters.
  5. noun (chiefly Canada, US, now rare, as two words) The boundary line of a piece of land, used as a reference in surveying etc.
  6. noun (typography, now chiefly historical) A line drawn across the head of a page, for the title, page number, etc.; also more generally, the space at the top of a page in which this information is positioned.
  7. noun (chiefly journalism) A heading or title at the top of a page or section of text; especially, a brief line in large letters summarising or drawing attention to the following article or similar in a magazine or newspaper. “The headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition."”
  8. noun (entertainment) The top-billed attraction; a headliner.
  9. verb To give a headline to a page or section of a text.
  10. verb (transitive, intransitive, entertainment) To present as the main attraction; to have top billing, to be the main attraction.

Synonyms

hed lead newspaper headline

Etymology

From head + line.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The line at the head or top of a page.
  2. noun See Headrope.

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