单词 | emphasizer |
释义 | emphasizern. A person who or thing which emphasizes; (Grammar) a word which adds force to the statement to which it is applied, an intensifier. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence > that which or one who emphasizes emphasizer1831 accentuator?1845 1831 C. G. F. Gore Pin Money III. iv. 72 He is such an unmerciful magnifier of atoms,..such an emphasizer upon nothings, that one loses one's time and patience in his service. 1887 Outing 10 111/1 By way of an emphasizer, striking the table a blow with his fist. 1922 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XI. 20 We have come to such a pass with this emphasizer [sc. literally] that [etc.]. 1952 Jet 11 July 30 ) Josephine Baker added bust ‘emphasizers’ to the bodices of her expensive French gowns. 1980 Times 27 Feb. 14/2 Such emphasizers as undoubtedly..diminish, if they do not actually destroy the assurance of a statement. 2008 Self (Nexis) Aug. 114 A clean, catlike line is the ultimate eye emphasizer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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