meaning of accent
1. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A word; a significant tone
5. expressions in general; speech.
6. Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
7. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
8. A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
9. The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
10. The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
11. 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.
12. A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc. ; as, 1227, i. e. , twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
13. A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6 10 is six feet ten inches.
14. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
15. To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
16. Accent
17. a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Related Words
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