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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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tentacle

/ˈtɛntəkəl/ noun, verb

Forms tentacles tentacling tentacled

  1. noun (zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
  2. noun (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
  3. noun (figurative) An insidious reach or influence. “the tentacles of the criminal underworld”
  4. noun (figurative) Something like a zoological limb.
  5. noun (UK, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
  6. verb To move like a tentacle

Synonyms

tentaculum

Etymology

From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

Etymology [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.]

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