| 释义 |
Noun: accent 'ak`sent- Distinctive manner of oral expression
"he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"
- speech pattern - Special importance or significance
"the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
- emphasis - The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
"he has a strong German accent"
- dialect, idiom - The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- stress, emphasis - A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
- accent mark
Verb: accent ak'sent- To stress, single out as important
- stress, emphasize, emphasise [Brit], punctuate, accentuate - Put stress on; utter with an accent
"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- stress, accentuate
Derived forms: accented, accenting, accents See also: accentual Type of: articulate, diacritic, diacritical mark, enounce, enunciate, evince, express, grandness, importance, inflection, non-standard speech, pronounce, pronunciation, prosody, say, show, sound out Encyclopedia: Accent |