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.

macro

UK /ˈmæk.ɹəʊ/ · US /ˈmæk.ɹoʊ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms macros macroes macroing macro'ing macroed macrod macro'ed macro'd

adjective Very large in scale or scope.
noun (countable, paraphilia, colloquial, also attributive) In the context of macrophilia, one who is abnormally very large.
noun (programming, often attributive) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program. “The preprocessor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.”
verb (intransitive, computing, informal) To use a macro.
verb (transitive, computing, informal) To use a macro on (something).
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

From macro-, from French, from Latin, ulimately from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “long”).

Clipping of macroinstruction. First attested in 1959.

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