Accent

['æks(ə)nt;-sent] or ['æksɛnt]

Definition

(noun.) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation.

(noun.) distinctive manner of oral expression; 'he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent'; 'she had a very clear speech pattern'.

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Definition

(n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A word; a significant tone

(n.) expressions in general; speech.

(n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

(n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

(n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

(n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.

(n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

(n.) 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''.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.

(v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.

(v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Intonation, cadence, tone, modulation of voice.[2]. Stress (on a certain syllable).

v. a. Accentuate, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Stress, rhythm, pulsation, beat, emphasis

ANT:Smoothness, inaccentuation, monotony, equableness, babble, flow

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Definition

n. modulation of the voice: stress on a syllable or word: a mark used to direct this stress: any mode of utterance peculiar to a country a province or an individual: (poet.) a significant word or words generally: (pl.) speech language.—v.t. Accent′ to express or note the accent.—adj. Accent′ual relating to accent.—n. Accentual′ity.—adv. Accent′ually.—v.t. Accent′uate to mark or pronounce with accent: to make prominent.—n. Accentuā′tion the act of marking or of pronouncing accents.

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