What's the difference between accent and letter?

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.

Letter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
  • (n.) One who retards or hinders.
  • (n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
  • (n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
  • (n.) A writing; an inscription.
  • (n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
  • (n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
  • (n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
  • (n.) A letter; an epistle.
  • (v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (4) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
  • (5) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
  • (6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (7) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (8) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
  • (9) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
  • (10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (11) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
  • (12) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
  • (13) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
  • (14) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (15) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
  • (16) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.
  • (17) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
  • (18) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
  • (19) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (20) "Fifa received a letter via email and fax from the Costa Rica FA on March 24 with regards to the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier played on March 22 between USA and Costa Rica," Fifa said.