(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.
Section
Definition:
(n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
(n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(3) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(5) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(8) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(9) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(10) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(11) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(12) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(13) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(15) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(16) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(17) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(18) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(19) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(20) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.