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emphasis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accent |
| Type of | grandness, importance |
| Has types | stress, focus |
| Derivation | emphasize, emphatic |
the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis.
emphasis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accent, stress |
| Type of | prosody, inflection |
| Has types | word stress, pitch accent, sentence stress, tonic accent, word accent, accentuation |
| Derivation | emphatic |
emphasis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | vehemence |
| Type of | intensity, intensiveness |
| Has types | overemphasis |
| Derivation | emphatic |
his emphasis on civil rights.
emphasis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | rhetorical device |
| Has types | topicalization |
| Derivation | emphatic |
Examples of emphasis
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Belichick has always put more of an emphasis on games played after Thanksgiving.
From the bloomberg.com
Cook told Whitsitt to redo the presentation with a greater emphasis on politics.
From the sacbee.com
In general, Roto puts more emphasis on rare commodities such as steals or saves.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
For one thing, it places less emphasis on an open-auction format than eBay does.
From the businessweek.com
I go right along, until I come to the word love.'That's where I put an emphasis.
From the businessweek.com
The emphasis they put on it in the draft made it clear how serious the need was.
From the charlotteobserver.com
For instance, a renewed emphasis through drills helped revive the turnover game.
From the stltoday.com
That led MasterCard to place more emphasis on what it calls its locator service.
From the forbes.com
Mizzou has succeeded on just 16 of 55 third downs, a point of emphasis all week.
From the stltoday.com
- 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"
- Vehemence: intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"
- Special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
- Stress: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
- In FM transmission, emphasis is the intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal to reduce adverse effects of noise in a communication system.
- In typography, emphasis is the exaggeration of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text--to emphasize them.
- Emphasis! (On Parenthesis) is an album by the Stanton Moore Trio, released on April 22, 2008. Organist Robert Walter and guitarist Will Bernard, both of whom played with Moore on his previous solo album, III, are featured on the album.
- Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important; Special attention or prominence given to something; Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type; Related to bold
- It is the importance given to certain object or areas in an artwork. Color, texture, shape, and size can be used to create emphasis. Emphasis is a principle of design.
