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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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scan

/skæn/ verb, noun

Forms scans scanning scanned

  1. verb (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. “She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.”
  2. verb (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something. “to scan the hard drive for errors”
  3. verb (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
  4. verb (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
  5. verb (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner. “to scan a photograph”
  6. verb (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device. “to scan a barcode”
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
  8. verb (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
  9. noun Of written things, a careful reading.
  10. noun Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
  11. noun (computing) An instance of scanning. “The operators vacated the room during the scan.”
  12. noun (computing) The result or output of a scanning process. “The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.”
  13. noun (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.

Synonyms

perusal CAT scan skim rake glance over run down read

Etymology

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“to climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mount by steps; to go through with step by step. [Obs.]
  2. verb Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.

Etymology [L. scandere, scansum, to climb, to scan, akin to Skr. skand to spring, leap: cf. F. scander. Cf. Ascend, Descend, Scale a ladder.]

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