ACCENT
\ˈaksənt], \ˈaksənt], \ˈa_k_s_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of ACCENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
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the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
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a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
By Princeton University
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distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
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the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
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A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
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Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
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A word; a significant tone
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expressions in general; speech.
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Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
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A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
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The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
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The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
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A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
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A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
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A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.
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To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
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To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
By Oddity Software
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A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
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A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
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Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
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A word; a significant tone
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expressions in general; speech.
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Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
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A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
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The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
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The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
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A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
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A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
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A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.
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To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
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To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the FLAVORING AGENTS used to impart a meat-like flavor. Medically it has been used to reduce blood ammonia levels in ammoniacal azotemia, therapy of hepatic coma, in psychosis, and mental retardation.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The stress laid by the voice upon a particular syllable of a word; a mark or character used in writing and printing to show the proper pronunciation of a word; a peculiarity of utterance characterizing the language of a certain part of a country or the speech of foreigners; musical emphasis.
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To express the emphatic syllable in (a word) by stress or modulation of the voice; mark a stressed syllable by a sign; emphasize, as a passage of music.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Modulation of the voice: stress on a syllable or word: a mark used to direct this stress: in poetry, language, words, or expressions in general.
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To express or note the accent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To speak, write, or print with an accent; emphasize.
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A stress of voice on a syllable of a word, or a mark used to indicate such stress known as primary (') and secondary (").
By James Champlin Fernald
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Inflection or modification of the voice, which consists in raising or dropping it on certain syllables. The accent exhibits various alterations in disease.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin] A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word, distinguishing it from the others ;—a mark used in. writing to regulate the pronunciation ; word, language, or expressions in general ;—a mark place at the right hand of a letter or number to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind, but differing in value.
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