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emÂ·phaÂ·sis Â ( [image]

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n. pl. emÂ·phaÂ·ses (-s [image]

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1. Special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out; stress: a lecture on housekeeping with emphasis on neatness; paused for emphasis, then announced the winner's name.

2. Special attention or effort directed toward something: a small-town newspaper's emphasis on local affairs.

3. Prominence given to a syllable, word, or words, as by raising the voice or printing in italic type.

[Latin, from Greek, from emphainein, to exhibit, display : en-, in; see en-² + phainein, to show; see bh-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: emphasis, accent, stress
These nouns mean special weight placed on something considered important: an education with an emphasis on science; will study music with an accent on jazz; laid heavy stress on law and order.

emphasis

Noun

pl -ses

1. special importance or significance given to something, such as an object or idea

2. stress on a particular syllable, word, or phrase in speaking [Greek]

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Noun 1.

emphasis - special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"

accent

grandness, importance - a prominent status; "a person of importance"

stress, focus - special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"

emphasis - intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"

vehemence

intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense

overemphasis - too much emphasis

3. emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.

topicalization - (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English; "`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization"

rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

4. emphasis - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

stress, accent

prosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

accentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance

pitch accent, tonic accent - emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness

word accent, word stress - the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word

sentence stress - the distribution of stresses within a sentence

emphasis

noun 1. importance, attention, weight, significance, stress, strength, priority, moment, intensity, insistence, prominence, underscoring, pre-eminence

2. stress, accent, accentuation, force, weight

Translations

emphasis [pl emphases] [ˈɛmfəsɪs, -siːz] n → Ã©nfasis m inv [to lay or place emphasis on sth] (fig) → hacer hincapiÃ© en algo;

the emphasis is on sport → se da mayor importancia al deporte

emphasis [-ases , pl ] [ˈɛmfəsɪs, -siːz] n → accent m;

to lay or place emphasis on sth (fig) → mettre l'accent sur, insister sur;

the emphasis is on reading → la lecture tient une place primordiale, on accorde une importance particuliÃ¨re Ã la lecture

emphasis [ˈɛmfəsɪs] [emphases , pl ] n → Betonung f;

(importance) → (Schwer)gewicht nt;

to lay or place emphasis on sth → etw betonen;

the emphasis is on reading → das Schwergewicht liegt auf dem Lesen

emphasis [pl emphases] [ˈɛmfəsɪs, -siːz] n → enfasi f inv; importanza;

to lay or place emphasis on sth (fig) → mettere in risalto or in evidenza qc;

the emphasis is on sport → si dÃ molta importanza allo sport

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The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.

Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context

But with secondary characters the principles of emphasis and proportion generally forbid very distinct individualization; and sometimes, especially in comedy

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

He nodded gravely, and added with awful emphasis - 'I thought it incumbent upon me to do so.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context

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