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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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gore

UK /ɡɔː/ · US /ɡoɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms gores goring gored

  1. noun Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  2. noun (countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.
  3. noun Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
  4. noun Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
  5. noun (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To cover or smear with blood.
  7. verb (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk. “The bull gored the matador.”
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
  9. verb (transitive or intransitive with at, obsolete, figurative) To needle or wound the feelings of.
  10. noun A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
  11. noun (archaic or dialectal) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
  12. noun (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
  13. noun The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.
  14. noun A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
  15. noun An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  16. noun A projecting point.
  17. noun (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
  18. verb To cut into a triangular form.
  19. verb To provide with a gore. “to gore an apron”
  20. proper noun A surname. “Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.”

Synonyms

horn jab run through chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gride job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach shank shiv Al Gore Albert Gore Jr. panel bloodshed

Etymology

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

From any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Dirt; mud. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.
  2. noun Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.
  3. noun A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  4. noun A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.

Etymology [AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW. gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf. Icel. görn, garnir, guts.]

Etymology [OE. gore, gare, AS. g angular point of land, fr. g spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad. Cf. Gar, n., Garlic, and Gore, v.]

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