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- Accent - 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.
- Accent - 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.
- Accent - 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.
- Accent - n. - A word; a significant tone
- Accent - n. - expressions in general; speech.
- Accent - n. - Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
- Accent - n. - A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
- Accent - n. - A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
- Accent - n. - The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
- Accent - n. - The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
- Accent - 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''.
- Accent - 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.
- Accent - n. - A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.
- Accent - v. t. - To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
- Accent - v. t. - To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
- Accented - imp. & p. p. - of Accent
- Accenting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Accent
- Accentless - a. - Without accent.
- Accentor - n. - One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
- Accentor - n. - A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.
- Accentuable - a. - Capable of being accented.
- Accentual - a. - Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
- Accentuality - n. - The quality of being accentual.
- Accentually - adv. - In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
- Accentuate - v. t. - To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
- Proparoxytone - n. - A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
- Accentuate - v. t. - To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
- Baritone - a. - Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
- Perispomenon - n. - A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.
- Stress - n. - Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
- Syncopate - v. t. - To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
- Properispomenon - n. - A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.
- Cabala - n. - A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.
- Inflection - n. - A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
- Polonaise - n. - A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca.
- Enclitical - v. i. - Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.
- Metre - n. - Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
- Baritone - n. - A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
- Paroxytone - a. - A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.
- Enclitically - adv. - In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.
- Accent - v. t. - To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
- Oxytone - n. - A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
- Mazurka - n. - A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.