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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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mandible

/ˈmeə̯n.dɪb.əl/ noun

Forms mandibles mandibula

  1. noun The jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
  2. noun Either of the upper and lower segments of a bird's beak.
  3. noun Any of various invertebrate mouthparts serving to hold or bite food materials.
  4. noun One of the anterior pair of mouthparts of an arthropod, designed for holding and cutting food.

Synonyms

dentary dentary bone inferior maxillary bone jawbone lower jaw submaxilla fang mandibula mandibular bone lower jawbone jowl

Etymology

From late Middle English, from Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”), from mandō (“to chew, masticate”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; --also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
  2. noun The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.

Etymology [L. mandibula, mandibulum, fr. mandere to chew. Cf. Manger.]

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