(n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A word; a significant tone
(n.) expressions in general; speech.
(n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
(n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
(n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
(n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
(n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
(n.) 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''.
(n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
(n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.
(v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
(v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think you're probably right that the accent does degenerate along with Richard.
(2) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(3) We describe a right-handed native American who developed a foreign accent following damage to the left premotor region and white matter anterior to the head of the left caudate nucleus.
(4) The accent in rheumatism orthopedics should gradually shift toward early preventive operation.
(5) He does not appear to have a regional or working-class accent.
(6) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(7) I first moved to New York aged 11, and found my accent provoked a certain suspicion.
(8) As he was detained, the gunman, wearing a balaclava and a bathrobe, allegedly repeated twice in French with an English accent: "The Anglophones are waking up," an apparent reference to the "maple spring" of student protests against the government that contributed to the snap election being called.
(9) Executive producer, played by Emily Mortimer Boy, do they work to explain Mortimer's English accent… Anyway, she's the show's new Anglo-American chief.
(10) His Scottish accent was only fleetingly used, something kept up his sleeve, as he said, "like a dirk for tight corners".
(11) One girl with a Scouse accent sees me taking notes and says: "Oi, get up me dear… stop writing youse!"
(12) Instead, let's hunt down whoever told Van Dyke an English accent just involves adding "guvnerrrr" to every other sentence.
(13) Up the hill, the prince was trying out his schoolboy French – " C'est un honneur pour nous d'être parmi vous … merci votre patience avec mon accent " – and was cheered for doing so.
(14) Memory confusions of temporal patterns in a discrimination task were characterized by the same hierarchy of inferred accent strength.
(15) We meet in her home city of Cologne, and although she speaks with only the faintest trace of a foreign accent, vocabulary often escapes her.
(16) A special accent was laid on the formation of the sporulation septum and its alterations in the course of spore delimitation and separation.
(17) Similar rhythms preserved accent coupling, whereas dissimilar rhythms did not.
(18) The Lib Dem and Labour leaders have Yorkshire seats, but neither possesses the matching accent.
(19) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
(20) These are, in chronological order, Johann August Wilhelm Hedenus (the elder; 1760-1834), Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861) and Eduard Zeis (1807-1868); Zeis' career is reviewed briefly here with the accent on Dresden.
Ascent
Definition:
() The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
() The way or means by which one ascends.
() An eminence, hill, or high place.
() The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(2) After unsuccessful treatment with surgical debridement and high-dose antibiotic therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy was administered in a multiplace recompression chamber (one hour of treatment at 1.8 atmospheres absolute followed by a 30 minute "ascent" to surface pressure).
(3) It expresses the ratio between the partial pressure of the dissolved gas and the reduction of hydrostatic pressure during ascent (given as pressure gradient).
(4) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
(5) The open-sea dives were carried out with an average speed of descent of 3.95 feet per second and an average rate of ascent of 3.50 feet per second.
(6) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
(7) According to Wangchu Sherpa, an official from the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, Upadhyay had arrived at the Everest base camp in mid-April and had been waiting for good weather to start acclimatising for his ascent.
(8) It's a pointy peak in the middle of the Tijuca forest, the last portion of which involves a steep ascent up steps cut into the bare rock, hanging on to an iron chain.
(9) There was a diuresis with negative fluid balance towards the end of the ascent and again early in descent.
(10) The road-race course, on the other hand, has two ascents of Box Hill, which will definitely suit Pooley's climbing ability.
(11) In diagnosis it is necessary to distin guish between unnoticed expulsion, ascent of the tail into the cavity, and perforation.
(12) The walk that will always stay in my mind is one that I enjoyed with my climbing partner Paul Ramsden and our liaison officer, Dawa, after we had made the first ascent of beautiful Manamcho (6,264m) in the Nyainqentanglha East range of eastern Tibet.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nima Dorchi at work establishing a safe route through the Khumbu iceflow, a key stage of the Everest mountain range ascent.
(14) "Mr Valls's ascent is partly thanks to a keen eye for what looks good in the media, and a matching energy to supply it," the magazine wrote.
(15) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
(16) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
(17) After the collapse of the Soviet Union Putin enjoyed a spectacular ascent : aide to St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak; deputy mayor; head of the FSB spy agency; prime minister.
(18) Zero order kinetics is deduced from the linear ascent of the cumulated AUC (in percent) vs. time plot.
(19) In the supine position ear clearing was significantly more difficult during both ascent and descent, which indicates that it is preferable to assume an upright body posture during exposures to pressure changes in dry pressure chambers.
(20) The 60th anniversary of the first ascent of the 8,848 metre (29,028ft) peak by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay will be celebrated next week.