HOW TO PRONOUNCE
thermometer
/θɚˈmɑmətɚ/
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Start with the unvoiced th of thin. Keep the opening r-colored vowel light, then make the second syllable stronger than the ending.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“She checked the thermometer by the window.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does thermometer mean?
noun
- An apparatus used to measure temperature.
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IPA pronunciation
/θɚˈmɑmətɚ/
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It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer of the public misery and riches,—the cost of collecting the taxes.
We may imagine that an ordinary thermometer would afford no result under the circumstances in which this instrument was to be exposed.
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It is important to know the degree of heat in the drier, and this cannot be determined accurately except by a thermometer.
Plants thus transferred, and watered after being set out, will not wilt, although the thermometer is in the nineties the following day.
It was eight in the morning, and we suffered severely from the cold, though the thermometer kept a little above freezing point.