accent

• distinctive manner of oral expression
• special importance or significance
• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
• a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
• to stress, single out as important
• put stress on
• A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others
• A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation
• Modulation of the voice in speaking
• A word
• expressions in general
• Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse
• A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure
• A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure
• The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period
• The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage
• 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´´
• A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc
• A mark used to denote feet and inches
• To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark)
• To mark emphatically

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