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Accent :: Accent (n.) 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..

Accent :: Accent (n.) 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..

Proclitic :: Proclitic (a.) Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

Baritone :: Baritone (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood..

Accent :: Accent (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood..

Caesura :: Caesura (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot..

Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like..

Oxytone :: Oxytone (n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection..

Accent :: Accent (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period..

Accent :: Accent (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

Accenting :: Accenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accen.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A word; a significant ton.

Properispomenon :: Properispomenon (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any..

Accentuable :: Accentuable (a.) Capable of being accented.

Broad :: Broad (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent..

Accentor :: Accentor (n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

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