- accent, speech pattern - distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
--1 is a kind of pronunciation
--1 has particulars: drawlDerived form: verb accentuate2 - emphasis, accent - special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents"
--2 is a kind of importance, grandness
--2 has particulars: stress, focusDerived forms: verb accentuate1, verb accent1 - dialect, idiom, accent - 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"
--3 is a kind of non-standard speech
--3 has particulars: eye dialect; patoisDerived form: verb accentuate2 - stress, emphasis, accent - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
--4 is a kind of prosody, inflection
--4 has particulars:accentuation; tonic accent, pitch accent; word stress, word accent; sentence stress Derived forms: verb accentuate2, verb accent2 - accent, accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
--5 is a kind of diacritical mark, diacritic
--5 has particulars:stress mark; acute accent, acute, ague; grave accent, grave Derived form: verb accentuate2
- stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
--1 is one way to express, show, evince
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun accent2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- stress, accent, accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
--2 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun accent4
Somebody ----s something