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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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tare

UK /tɛə/ · US /tɛ(ə)ɹ/ noun, verb

Also a form of tara

Forms tares taring tared

  1. noun (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa).
  2. noun Any of the tufted grasses of the genus Lolium; darnel.
  3. noun (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
  4. noun The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
  5. verb (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
  6. verb (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
  7. noun Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
  8. noun (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter T.

Synonyms

zero Tango darnel bearded darnel cheat Lolium temulentum

Etymology

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Tore.
  2. noun A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; --alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
  3. noun A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
  4. noun Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.

Etymology [Cf. Prov. E. tare brisk, eager, OE. tarefitch the wild vetch.]

Etymology [F. tare; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr. Ar. tarah thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject, remove.]

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