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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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interface

UK /ˈɪntəfeɪs/ · US /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/ noun, verb

Forms interfaces interfacing interfaced

  1. noun The point of interconnection or contact between entities. “Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.”
  2. noun (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance. “If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.”
  3. noun (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems. “The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.”
  4. noun (computing) The connection between a user and a machine. “The options are selected via the user interface.”
  5. noun (object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module. “This interface is implemented by several Java classes.”
  6. noun (object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement. “The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.”
  7. noun (object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
  8. noun (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
  9. verb (transitive) To construct an interface for.
  10. verb (ambitransitive) To connect through an interface.
  11. verb (intransitive) To serve as an interface.
  12. verb (business, intransitive) To meet for discussion. “Let's interface on Wednesday.”

Synonyms

user interface port

Etymology

From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).

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