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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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trailer

UK /ˈtɹeɪlə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/ noun, verb

Forms trailers trailering trailered

  1. noun Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.
  2. noun Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object. “the trailer of a plant”
  3. noun An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle. “At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer.”
  4. noun (US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary. “We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.”
  5. noun (US) A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes. “The young couple′s first home was in a trailer.”
  6. noun (chiefly US, media) A preview of a film, video game or TV show. “The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.”
  7. noun A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
  8. noun (computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card. “The linked list terminates with a trailer record.”
  9. verb To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer. “The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.”

Synonyms

appendage attachment appendix extension extrusion camper caravan travel trailer mobile home preview teaser sentinel dawdler drone laggard lagger poke prevue house trailer

Antonyms

header

Etymology

From trail + -er. The film sense derives from the fact that previews were formerly shown after the main feature, rather than before as is usual today, that is trailing after the main feature.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, trails.
  2. noun A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant. trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers (2), often with outlets supplying electrical power and water. Called also trailer camp, trailer court.

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