| accent | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. accent, speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression.; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern" |
| ~ pronunciation | the manner in which someone utters a word.; "they are always correcting my pronunciation" |
| ~ drawl | a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels. |
| n. (state) | 2. accent, emphasis | special importance or significance.; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" |
| ~ grandness, importance | a prominent status.; "a person of importance" |
| ~ stress, focus | special emphasis attached to something.; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed" |
| n. (communication) | 3. accent, dialect, idiom | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people.; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" |
| ~ non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community. |
| ~ eye dialect | the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker. |
| ~ patois | a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard. |
| ~ spang, bang | leap, jerk, bang.; "Bullets spanged into the trees" |
| ~ euphonious | (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident.; "her euphonious Southern speech" |
| ~ forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards | at or to or toward the front.; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine" |
| n. (communication) | 4. accent, emphasis, stress | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch).; "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
| ~ prosody, inflection | the patterns of stress and intonation in a language. |
| ~ accentuation | the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance. |
| ~ pitch accent, tonic accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness. |
| ~ word accent, word stress | the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word. |
| ~ sentence stress | the distribution of stresses within a sentence. |
| n. (communication) | 5. accent, accent mark | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation. |
| ~ language, linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols.; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" |
| ~ diacritic, diacritical mark | a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. |
| ~ stress mark | a mark indicating the stress on a syllable. |
| ~ acute, acute accent, ague | a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. |
| ~ grave accent, grave | a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. |
| v. (communication) | 6. accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress | to stress, single out as important.; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" |
| ~ background, play down, downplay | understate the importance or quality of.; "he played down his royal ancestry" |
| ~ set off, bring out | direct attention to, as if by means of contrast.; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets" |
| ~ re-emphasise, re-emphasize | emphasize anew.; "The director re-emphasized the need for greater productivity" |
| ~ bear down | pay special attention to.; "The lectures bore down on the political background" |
| ~ evince, express, show | give expression to.; "She showed her disappointment" |
| ~ topicalize | emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence.; "Speakers topicalize more often than they realize"; "The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'" |
| ~ point up | emphasize, especially by identification.; "This novel points up the racial problems in England" |
| ~ press home, ram home, drive home | make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something.; "drive home a point or an argument"; "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas" |
| ~ emphasise, underline, underscore, emphasize | give extra weight to (a communication).; "Her gesture emphasized her words" |
| v. (communication) | 7. accent, accentuate, stress | put stress on; utter with an accent.; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" |
| ~ enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" |
| inflection | | |
| n. (linkdef) | 1. inflection, inflexion | a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function. |
| ~ grammatical relation | a linguistic relation established by grammar. |
| ~ conjugation | the inflection of verbs. |
| ~ declension | the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages. |
| ~ paradigm | systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word. |
| ~ pluralisation, pluralization | the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to. |
| n. (communication) | 2. inflection, prosody | the patterns of stress and intonation in a language. |
| ~ manner of speaking, delivery, speech | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally.; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" |
| ~ intonation, pitch contour, modulation | rise and fall of the voice pitch. |
| ~ caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line. |
| ~ enjambement, enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause. |
| ~ stress, accent, emphasis | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch).; "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
| ~ speech rhythm, rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements.; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry" |
| n. (event) | 3. flection, flexion, inflection | deviation from a straight or normal course. |
| ~ deviation, departure, difference, divergence | a variation that deviates from the standard or norm.; "the deviation from the mean" |
| n. (communication) | 4. inflection, modulation | a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified. |
| ~ manner of speaking, delivery, speech | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally.; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" |
| speech pattern | | |
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