(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.
Plummy
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
Example Sentences:
(1) In November during his appearance before Leveson, Grant referred to the report, in the Mail on Sunday in February 2007, which said his relationship with his then girlfriend, Jemima Khan, was "on the rocks" because of "persistent late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced executive from Warner Brothers" – a story he said was "completely untrue".
(2) An obscene joke about two highly acclaimed actors – a wildly-bearded Matthew Rhys and an unstoppably plummy Matthew Goode – who’d exploited their star power to get smashed on plonk inside a beautiful Umbrian villa, while getting paid for it.
(3) Switching back into that plummy voice again: "'Yah, you're very, very clever, mate, but there's more to life than being clever.'
(4) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
(5) Mallya featured in the carrier's in-flight videos, welcoming passengers and boasting in a characteristic plummy drawl of "personally picking" cabin staff and instructing them to treat passengers "as if you were a guest in my own home".
(6) Hartley also said that the Mail on Sunday diary and royal editor Katie Nicholl and a freelance journalist "emphatically denied" they had got the story regarding a plummy-voiced female film executive and Grant from phone hacking.
(7) Grant also referred to a report in the Mail on Sunday in February 2007, which said his relationship with his then girlfriend, Jemima Khan, was "on the rocks" because of "persistent late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced executive from Warner Brothers" – a story he said was "completely untrue".
(8) Heads of state were charmed by his oddly plummy English vowels – a legacy from his studies at a university in a former hill station beloved of British Raj administrators in India – and his conversation too.
(9) To be frank, he looks like a home counties Tory MP clean out of central casting – middle-aged, chinless, with that blend of plummy vowels and flinty eyes peculiar to posh hardline rightwingers.
(10) Elsewhere, plummy Chummy (Miranda Hart) is becoming most aggrieved at the prospect of having to corral the district's cub scouts.
(11) Some are old or plummy-toned, some have grey hair, some are young and working class, some are anxious suburban commuters.
(12) The trailer for the film – featuring only quizzical grunts and alarmed cries from Paddington rather than Firth's drily plummy tones – was recently released, and features the bear fresh from darkest Peru trying to understand bathrooms and the London Underground system.
(13) David Sherborne, the counsel representing alleged victims of press intrusion at the inquiry including Grant, asked Leveson whether he would be calling the individual journalists – Nicholl and the freelance – who had supplied the plummy voiced story to testify.
(14) Or will Guardians of the Galaxy do for talking trees and anthropomorphic astro-raccoons what The Avengers did for plummy Norse gods and non-jolly green giants?