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accented::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tonic |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | stressed |
Examples of accented
accented
It shows good balance between fruit and acidity, accented but not marred by oak.
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Vals is, as its title suggests, a waltz, accented by guitars and sonic whooshes.
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So is Vincent Price, though he's not really accented so much as overarticulated.
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Huang's fluent, Oxford-accented English and quick wit have impressed Westerners.
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The costumes accented the classic story, giving the feel of 19th-century France.
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The matching jacket was also beaded and accented with metallic silver stitching.
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Tables and chairs were draped with black cloths and accented with burlap fabric.
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A valance with horses depicted on it and accented with fringe adorns the window.
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The parents of some in-laws speak it and their English is a little bit accented.
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- Tonic: used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"
- Stressed: bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
- (accent) distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
- (accent) stress: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
- (accent) stress: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- (accent) dialect: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
- Accent (u0410u043Au0446u0435u043Du0442) was a Belarusian heavy metal band from the city of Minsk. The band played an important role in the development of contemporary music in Belarus.
- (Accent (music)) In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. ...
- (Accent (phonology)) In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. ...
