Accent

·noun A word; a significant tone.

II. Accent ·noun expressions in general; speech.

III. Accent ·noun Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

IV. Accent ·noun The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

V. Accent ·vt To mark emphatically; to Emphasize.

VI. Accent ·noun The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.

VII. Accent ·noun A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

VIII. Accent ·noun A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.

IX. Accent ·vt To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.

X. Accent ·noun A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

XI. Accent ·noun A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

XII. Accent ·noun A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, ·etc.; as, 12'27'', ·i.e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.

XIII. Accent ·noun 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''.

XIV. Accent ·noun 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.

XV. Accent ·noun 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.