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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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rollback

noun, verb

Forms rollbacks rollbacking rollbacked

  1. noun A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
  2. noun A withdrawal of military forces.
  3. noun (databases) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
  4. noun The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
  5. noun (informal, automotive) A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically to carry other vehicles, for use in recovery (wrecking, salvage) or for transporting.
  6. noun (political science) The strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime, or by totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
  7. noun (aviation) An uncommanded reduction in the thrust of a jet engine.
  8. verb (transitive, computing, databases) To return to the previous state. “The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes.”
  9. verb (intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To reduce thrust without having been commanded to do so.

Synonyms

reversion revert slide truck tow truck[Appendix:Glossary regime change roll back push back

Etymology

The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.

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