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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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pedal

/ˈpɛdəl/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms pedals pedaling pedalling pedaled pedalled

  1. noun A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano. “There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.”
  2. noun (medicine) an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
  3. noun (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
  4. noun (equestrianism, humorous) A stirrup.
  5. noun (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ. “A small organ commonly has only one or two ranks on the pedal.”
  6. verb To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion. “to pedal one's loom”
  7. verb (intransitive) To operate a bicycle. “He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.”
  8. adjective Of or relating to the foot.

Synonyms

pedal point treadle foot pedal foot lever bicycle cycle bike wheel

Etymology

Borrowed from French pédale, itself borrowed from Italian pedale, from Latin pedālis. By surface analysis, ped- + -al.

Learned borrowing from Latin pedālis. Cognate with French pédal (doublet of the pédale mentioned in § Etymology 1). Same surface analysis as in § Etymology 1.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zoöl.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals. Pedal curve or surface (Geom.), the curve or surface which is the locus of the feet of perpendiculars let fall from a fixed point upon the straight lines tangent to a given curve, or upon the planes tangent to a given surface.
  3. noun A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.
  4. noun A pedal curve or surface.

Etymology [L. pedalis, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Pew.]

Etymology [Cf. F. pédale, It. pedale. See Pedal, a.]

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