Definition of Accents. Meaning of Accents. Synonyms of Accents

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Definition of Accents

Accent
Accent Ac*cent", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accented; p. pr. & vb. n. Accenting.] [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.] 1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. 2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

Meaning of Accents from wikipedia

- reification Accent (music), an emphasis placed on a note The Accents, American doo-**** group Ecclesiastical accent, the simplest style of plainchant Accent (programming...
- specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. Accents may be written into...
- The accentors are a genus of birds in the family Prunellidae, which is endemic to the Old World. This small group of closely related p****erines are all...
- "Southern Accents" was later covered by Johnny Cash for his Unchained album in 1996. Originally conceived as a concept album, the theme of Southern Accents became...
- to lose their native accents and develop American accents, even in everyday speech.[citation needed] With regard to English accent training, the two most...
- American accent. The sound of American English continues to evolve, with some local accents disappearing, but several larger regional accents having emerged...
- Yorkshire accents sound similar, accents in areas around Hull and Middlesbrough are markedly different. Due to this, the Middlesbrough accent is sometimes...
- "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In basic analysis of a poem by scansion, accents can be represented by a short vertical line (') preceding the syllable...
- United States Navy have been named Accentor, after the accentor, a bird most notably the hedge sparrow. USS Accentor (AMc-36), was a coastal minesweeper...
- refers to accents of the late 19th century to mid-20th century spoken by the Northeastern American upper class, as well as related accents in the early...