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English noun: emphasis | |||
| 1. | emphasis (state) special importance or significance | ||
| Samples | The red light gave the central figure increased emphasis. The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents. | ||
| Synonyms | accent | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | grandness, importance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | focus, stress | ||
| 2. | emphasis (attribute) intensity or forcefulness of expression | ||
| Samples | The vehemence of his denial. His emphasis on civil rights. | ||
| Synonyms | vehemence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intensity, intensiveness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | overemphasis | ||
| 3. | emphasis (communication) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rhetorical device | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | topicalization | ||
| 4. | emphasis (communication) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | ||
| Samples | He put the stress on the wrong syllable. | ||
| Synonyms | accent, stress | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inflection, prosody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accentuation, pitch accent, sentence stress, tonic accent, word accent, word stress | ||
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