Accent vs. Inflection
Accentnoun
(linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
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(figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
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(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
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Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
Accentnoun
The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
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A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
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A word; a significant tone or sound.
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Expressions in general; speech.
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Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
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(music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
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(music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
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(music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
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(music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
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(music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
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(mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y.
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(geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in 12' 27, meaning twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
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(engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10'', meaning six feet ten inches.
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Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
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A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
Accentnoun
A distinctive feature or quality.
Accentnoun
(archaic) Utterance.
Accentverb
(transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
Accentverb
(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
Accentverb
(transitive) To mark with written accents.
Accentnoun
A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
Accentnoun
A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
Accentnoun
Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
Accentnoun
A word; a significant tone
Accentnoun
Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
Accentnoun
A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
Accentnoun
A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y´, y.
Accentverb
To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
Accentverb
To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Accentnoun
distinctive manner of oral expression;
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special importance or significance;
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the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
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the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch);
Accentnoun
a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Accentverb
to stress, single out as important;
Accentverb
put stress on; utter with an accent;
Inflectionnoun
(grammar) A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.
Inflectionnoun
A change in pitch or tone of voice.
Inflectionnoun
(mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
Inflectionnoun
A turning away from a straight course.
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(optometry) diffraction
Inflectionnoun
The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
Inflectionnoun
A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
Inflectionnoun
A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
Inflectionnoun
The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
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Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
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Same as Diffraction.
Inflectionnoun
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
Inflectionnoun
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
Inflectionnoun
deviation from a straight or normal course
Inflectionnoun
a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation, in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, determiners, participles, prepositions and postpositions, numerals, articles etc., as declension.
