Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

beat out

verb

Forms beats out beating out beaten out

verb To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum. “The drummer beat out a steady slow march.”
verb To extinguish. “He managed to beat the flames out with a blanket.”
verb (US) To defeat by a narrow margin. “She beat out three other contenders to claim the prize.”
verb To work out fully.
verb To make gold or silver leaf out of solid metal.
verb To bash a hole in.
verb (baseball, of a runner) To reach base after a bunt or groundball.
verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, out.

Synonyms

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