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Emphasis

Emphasis meaning

Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. | Special attention or prominence given to something. | Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.

Example sentences (20)

De-emphasis In telecommunication, de-emphasis is the complement of pre-emphasis, in the antinoise system called emphasis.

Luke said the school places a high emphasis on learning growth and academic success and that there is also equal emphasis placed on student wellbeing.

Urban aid requires major changes in how international groups operate: there will be less emphasis on direct delivery and more emphasis on partnerships.

A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims.

Howard McIntosh, Programme Manager for the One CONCACAF said, “What we have to do now is to put the correct emphasis in the right place; the emphasis really now has to be with the youth.

A comparison between the methods employed in the USA and other nations discloses some similarities in emphasis, but also other nuances in emphasis.

Bloomfield's approach to linguistics was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific basis of linguistics, adherence to behaviorism especially in his later work, and emphasis on formal procedures for the analysis of linguistic data.

Brecht and Weill wished to replace the old dramatic theater and its emphasis on emotions with epic theatre and its emphasis on reason.

In Cork heavier emphasis yet is put on the brrr sound to the letter R. Similar to the Cork accent but without the same unmistakable intonation, Kerry puts even heavier emphasis on the brrr sound to the letter R. For example: the word Forty.

India and Tibet saw emphasis on painted sculptures and dance, while religious painting borrowed many conventions from sculpture and tended to bright contrasting colors with emphasis on outlines.

Less emphasis was placed on the Army with its conventional tactics, and more emphasis was placed on the Revolutionary Guard with its unconventional tactics.

Reflection for emphasis The reflexive version of pronouns is often used for emphasis or to refer indirectly to a particular person, etc., according to context.

Reynolds (2007) surveys the relationship between African and world histories, with an emphasis on the tension between the area studies paradigm and the growing world-history emphasis on connections and exchange across regional boundaries.

Rust 60 Heinrich Zimmer also notes Christianity's emphasis on linear time; he attributes this emphasis specifically to the influence of Saint Augustine's theory of history.

Sly Dunbar An emphasis on the backbeat is found in all reggae drumbeats, but with the Rockers beat, the emphasis is on all four beats of the bar (usually on bass drum).

The plants most often used are stylized versions of the acanthus, with its emphasis on leafy forms, and the vine, with an equal emphasis on twining stems.

The result was a tendency to class conflict over nationalism, but the early 1900s the working classes split into the Valpas (class struggle emphasis) and Mäkelin (nationalist emphasis).

The Summary for Policymakers reflects less emphasis on communicating the basis for uncertainty and a stronger emphasis on areas of major concern associated with human-induced climate change.

This led to the need in some cases to enable or disable pre-emphasis or de-emphasis circuits in the radios and/or modems.

According to him, the arts have not been given the same emphasis as other fields.