(n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.
(n.) A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(2) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
(5) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
(6) This study examines the morphology of sporadic congenital microphthalmia in 1-day-old chicks, with particular emphasis on the neural retina.
(7) The emphasis was on reintegration into the community.
(8) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(9) Special emphasis is laid on the new or unusual clinical patterns of dystonia as well as on the latest advances in its treatment.
(10) Emphasis is placed on the use of acylases, aminopeptidases and hydantoinases.
(11) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(12) Primary cultures of cells derived from 13 patients with acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMML) were studied with particular emphasis on in vitro proliferation, cell differentiation and the mode for establishment of cell lines.
(13) Emphasis is placed on the contribution of MRI to the evaluation of these major classes of disease.
(14) We support the view that catalysis by metalloenzymes may be a reflection of the chemistry of the metal ion itself as a Lewis acid, and that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on supposed special characteristics (such as strains, "entasis") of the enzyme-metal ion association.
(15) A follow-up test determines if the person's learning has been effective, and where further emphasis may be placed.
(16) A review of the literature was undertaken with emphasis on recent clinical and therapeutic aspects of PSP.
(17) Cited studies were critically reviewed with emphasis on study size, patient sample, methods, diagnostic criteria, and reproducibility of results.
(18) Lower density foams can be used only if the impact test standards are rewritten with less emphasis on impacts with convex and pointed objects.
(19) Emphasis is placed on techniques that prevent spontaneous recanalization of the ends of the vas deferens after vasectomy.
(20) In this article the epidemiologic aspects of these diseases are discussed, with particular emphasis on exportation from their indigenous areas in Africa and on the occurrence of secondary cases.
Italic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to Italy or to its people.
(a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
(n.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The parties all agreed that as a result of electronic spying breakthroughs they appear to be now collecting “medical, legal and religious, or restricted business information, which may be regarded as an intrusion of privacy (my italics)”.
(2) Treatment of HSV-1-infected cells with the oligo(nucleoside methylphosphonate) d(TpCCTCCTG) (deoxynucleoside methylphosphonate residues in italic), which is complementary to the acceptor splice junction of HSV-1 IE pre-mRNA 4 and 5, before (1-24 hr) or at the time of infection caused a dose-dependent inhibition in virus replication.
(3) Muddles, on the other hand, are created when useful distinctions that could be drawn are not[,] or when an unnecessary distinction is drawn" (5, p. 71; italics omitted), or when when a useful distinction is minimized or blurred.
(4) Sentences come heavy with italics and euphemism, sometimes both.
(5) The italic wording in the letters is compulsory, but you may add or remove other wording.
(6) Whereas the gene and cDNA should be italicized, the corresponding transcript, protein, and enzyme activity should not be written with lowercase letters or in italics, e.g., human or murine UGT2B1.
(7) But perhaps what's most significant is how it has been marketed as "the first female-driven comedy to come out of the Judd Apatow [my italics] Funny Machine" (MTV).
(8) Regarding the role of trabecular bone at the knee joint, the following conclusions may be emphasized (conclusions drawn from the author's previous studies (I-X) are shown in italics): (1) Trabecular bone is almost exclusively responsible for the transmission of load at the proximal tibial epiphysis from the knee joint to the metaphysis.
(9) They suggest that the bone disease of Itai-Ital patients may also have started prior to the onset of this type of renal dysfunction.
(10) The following is the sequence flanking the thioester residues in C3, the highly conserved amino acids being underlined and the the thioester-forming residues being indicated by italics: 1005V-T-P-S-G-C-G-E-Q-N-M-I-G-M-T-P-T1021.
(11) David was mainly interested in political influence, and despised the commercialism of Kemsley, whose Sunday Times was conservative and printed reverential editorials about the royal family in italics.
(12) [My italics] There are 25,000 employees of the NSA (and many tens of thousands more who work for private contracts assigned to the agency).
(13) In reality, the injury had been self-inflicted, and he had lost a lung, his spleen, several ribs, and a finger, "but nothing else (my italics)".
(14) [2] and their generalization that, for the evaluation of genetic radiation hazards in man, we can now "extrapolate from mutation rates obtained in lower organisms to man with greater confidence" on the basis of DNA content (italics are ours).
(15) The amino-acid substitution, due to a point mutation, is written in the one-letter code (italized sample).
(16) Throughout the text certain terms are given in italics when first used in that particular description and Part 2 gives full explanations of these terms in the context of Part 1.
(17) – with the charity's point of view, written in italics: "First get inside the head of a 16-year-old bed-wetting boy."
(18) Let's take as a wild for-instance Lembit Opik's kerazy wig, bought at a taxpayer cost (can we just assume outraged italics, from now on, where the word "taxpayer" occurs?
(19) British Security Technologies is parked outside another mansion, its van promising in italic lettering: "We'll Keep You Safe 'n' Sound Tonight."
(20) Lagos is no longer the federal cap ital, but it is still the commercial, cultural and trading centre of West Africa, providing most of Nigeria's taxes and revenue.