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"the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"nounspecial importance or significance
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verbto stress, single out as important
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"he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"noundistinctive manner of oral expression
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nounthe relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)type of:
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"he has a strong German accent"nounthe usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of peopletype of:
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nouna diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
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"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"verbput stress on; utter with an accent
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Definition that contains accent
- beat (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- stress put stress on; utter with an accent
- crush leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- accent put stress on; utter with an accent
- measure (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- meter (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- stressed bearing a stress or accent
- feminine (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
- waltz a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat
- funk an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar