What's the difference between accent and emphasise?
Accent
Definition:
(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.
Emphasise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(2) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(3) The persistence of contact allergy to metals for which no desensitization is possible is also emphasised.
(4) He added: "I cannot emphasise enough the importance of progressing this work."
(5) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
(6) This case, despite the fatal outcome, emphasises the necessity for a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, including culture for Legionella, especially in immunocompromised patients.
(7) A spokesperson for Lim emphasised his involvement with Salford is “philanthropic”, motivated by his interest in developing young players and has nothing to do with Valencia, Mendes or TPO.
(8) Two successful cases and the advantages of the bilobed fasciocutaneous flap in lower leg reconstruction are emphasised.
(9) The importance of nutrition and early detection is emphasised.
(10) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(11) The approach also emphasises the self-evident fact that the voices of ordinary citizens, using our lived experiences to motivate others, are the most powerful tools for building relationships and mobilising a wider movement of support.
(12) That assessment was echoed by senior administration officials briefing reporters separately on Tuesday, who emphasised that, by contrast, they do not see an imminent domestic threat to the US from Isis.
(13) The association with biliary and pancreatic disease is emphasised, together with the possibility of surgical relief.
(14) Finally, an integrated control of Chagas Disease must emphasise complementary activities such as housing improvement and the active control of blood banks to eliminate transfusional transmission, besides the development of a realistic medical care system.
(15) But Ward said the findings “emphasise the need for strict biosecurity measures in the food production industry and the importance of infection control measures in hospitals, as well as responsible antibiotic usage in both veterinary and human medicine”.
(16) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(17) "I also want to emphasise that the efforts that we placed in research and development of our weapons systems is by no means targeted at any third country and it will by no means threaten any other country in the world."
(18) The importance of regular review in cases of severe hypertension is emphasised.
(19) The value of determination of the shunt during non-hemodynamic edema, and especially in the patient under artificial ventilation with P.E.E.P., is emphasised.
(20) The association of an arachnoidal cyst in the middle cranial fossa with a subdural haematoma or intracystic bleeding is emphasised.