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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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molar

UK /məʊlə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈmoʊlɚ/ noun, adjective

Forms molars

  1. noun A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. “Jamie had a molar removed as it was decaying.”
  2. adjective Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.
  3. adjective (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution.
  4. adjective (physics) Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.
  5. noun (chemistry) A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre.

Synonyms

cheektooth grinder wangtooth

Antonyms

molecular

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”).

From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; --said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. Carpenter.
  2. adjective Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth. Bacon.
  3. noun Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.

Etymology [L. moles mass.]

Etymology [L. molaris, fr. mola mill, fr. molere to grind in a mill. See Mill the machine.]

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