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.

coloring

adjective, noun

Also a form of color

Forms colorings colouring

adjective That colors something.
adjective (also figuratively) That conveys or imparts color.
noun An act or process which applies color.
noun Any substance used to give color. “Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.”
noun The appearance as to color.
noun A disguise or discoloration.
noun (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.

Synonyms

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