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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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bass

/beɪs/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of bast

Forms basser bassest basses bassing bassed base basse

  1. adjective Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency. “The giant spoke in a deep, bass, rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.”
  2. noun A low spectrum of sound tones. “Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.”
  3. noun (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. “The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.”
  4. noun (music) One who sings in the bass range. “Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.”
  5. noun (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a bass guitar, double bass, electric bass, or bass synthesiser. “The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.”
  6. noun (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C. “The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.”
  7. verb (transitive) To sound in a deep tone.
  8. noun The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
  9. noun The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
  10. noun Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
  11. noun Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
  12. proper noun A surname.
  13. proper noun A rural town in Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia, named after George Bass.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, named for the presence of bass (fish) in the local creek.

Synonyms

basso bass clef F clef bass part sea bass freshwater bass bass voice deep

Etymology

A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).

From Middle English bace, bas, alteration of bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰórsos (“prickle, thorn, scale”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at barse.

A corruption of bast.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun ; pl. Bass, and sometimes Basses. Etym: [A corruption of barse.] (Zoöl.)
  2. noun An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
  3. noun The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
  4. noun (Pron.

Etymology [A corruption of barse.]

Etymology [F. basse, fr. bas low. See Base, a.]

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