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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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swipe

/swaɪp/ verb, noun

Forms swipes swiping swiped

  1. verb (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly. “The cat swiped at the shoelace.”
  2. verb (transitive) To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
  3. verb (transitive) To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. “He swiped his card at the door.”
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it. “Swipe left to hide the toolbar.”
  5. verb (transitive, informal) To swipe right on (someone) on a dating application.
  6. verb (transitive, informal) To steal or snatch. “Hey! Who swiped my lunch?”
  7. verb (slang, obsolete, nautical) To drink.
  8. noun (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
  9. noun (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
  10. noun (countable, graphical user interface) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
  11. noun (countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
  12. noun (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag. “Take a swipe at the answer, even if you're not sure.”
  13. noun (countable, informal) An attack, insult or critical remark. “The politician took a swipe at his opponents.”
  14. noun (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
  15. noun (countable, linguistics) An instance of swiping, a kind of ellipsis. See swiping.

Synonyms

pinch steal abduct abstract appropriate bag bandit bash and grab bone boost burgle burglarize borrow cheat chore commandeer confiscate convert cop cozen pilfer cabbage purloin snarf hook sneak filch nobble lift

Etymology

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
  2. noun A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
  3. verb To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
  4. verb To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]

Etymology [Cf. Sweep, Swiple.]

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