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.

centigrade

adjective, noun

Forms centigrades

adjective (of a scale) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
adjective Celsius. [since 1948]
noun (uncountable) A centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. “all temperatures are expressed in centigrade unless otherwise noted”
noun (countable, archaic) A single degree on this scale. “a temperature of 34 centigrades”
noun (countable) The scale for angle measurement on which a gradian (a grad or gon) is the hundredth part of a quadrant.

Synonyms

From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”).

Etymology [L. centum a hundred + gradus degree: cf. F. centigrade.]

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