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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emphasis
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attention/emphasis/focus shifts
▪ In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.
the emphasis switches/is switched to sth
▪ The emphasis has switched to defence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets.
▪ The factory, an interactive site celebrating color and artistry, has two floors, with a different emphasis on each.
▪ Blaug presented his argument with a rather different emphasis.
▪ They may play in a different key and with a somewhat different emphasis but the tune can often be heard all the same.
▪ Subsequently these variations will be translated into different degrees of emphasis in ordering.
▪ The mix of skills should also be very different with an emphasis on analytical and contracting expertise.
▪ For industrial markets, the variables have a different emphasis.
great
▪ It was written by individuals who believed the company should place a greater emphasis on customer service.
▪ Its proponents saw it as a way of mobilizing national attention to greater emphasis on quality.
▪ The committee called for greater emphasis on language at all educational levels, with increased spending on staffing, accommodation and other resources.
▪ There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by.
▪ However, after 1984 a greater emphasis was placed on schemes designed to boost the physical regeneration of the inner cities.
▪ But is Kant right to place such great emphasis on the powers of the mind?
▪ The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills.
▪ Towards the end of the decade, with elections looming, land distribution decreased in favour of greater emphasis on raising agricultural yields.
heavy
▪ A heavy emphasis will be placed on evaluating the benefits to local people.
▪ A record-player shuffled a few simple chords violently together, then dealt them out with heavy emphasis.
▪ File management Introduction All quality standards place heavy emphasis on file management.
▪ Active enquiry is a feature of the course which places a heavy emphasis on the use of primary and secondary sources.
▪ Ordinary people, she said with heavy emphasis, who you despise.
▪ Lenin's heavy emphasis on discipline and centralized control within the Party was particularly unattractive to activists drawn from the minority nationalities.
▪ Under Ford's influence, Jaguar is placing heavy emphasis on building the car efficiently, speedily and at low cost.
▪ The tribalism of the town's Ga majority was given heavy emphasis.
increased
▪ In spite of the increased emphasis on planning and focused decision-making, admission to local authority care was often hasty and ill-planned.
▪ This mirrored the increased emphasis on confession evidence within the police forces around the country.
▪ The report, Policy Implications of Global Warming, calls for increased emphasis on energy efficiency and conservation.
▪ Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level.
▪ Repeated attempts to cut back the global total of public spending have placed an increased emphasis on control of public spending.
▪ Longer term consequences of this trend could include an increased counterproductive emphasis on first author publication.
▪ There would be increased emphasis on nuclear propulsion for maritime purposes.
▪ This awareness, and the increased emphasis on the development of this asset is epitomised in the term human resource management.
increasing
▪ The programmes of regional type are research-oriented; an increasing emphasis is being placed on environmental protection.
▪ Sociological explanations include the increasing emphasis on individualism in our society and the breakdown of family and community ties.
▪ Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the importance of inspection as a means of securing quality performance.
▪ However, like other reds, it has been exported successfully, especially with the increasing emphasis on the polled type.
▪ Throughout this period, an increasing emphasis was placed on tight monetary policy in an attempt to eradicate inflation.
▪ The third and fourth years are devoted to geology alone, with an increasing emphasis on independent project work.
▪ The reason is the increasing emphasis on individualism that industrial capitalist society imposes.
▪ The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies, such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones.
main
▪ The direct analysis approach is only mentioned briefly, with the main emphasis on overcoming heterogeneity effects.
▪ Despite these reservations, the main emphasis is right.
▪ I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins.
▪ The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.
▪ Rich pinks are the main emphasis in early August, but earlier in the year blue delphiniums predominate.
▪ The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role.
▪ Short-term monitoring rather than forecasting is still the main emphasis.
new
▪ The new emphasis is on management skills and giving value for money.
▪ There is a new emphasis on asking households to pay for water.
▪ With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word, the trend has been away from hymns, anthems and settings.
▪ With boundary-to-boundary skiing, says Carey, comes a new emphasis on educating skiers about the potential dangers.
▪ In came renewed assaults on Militant, luncheons in the City and the new emphasis on competition and even markets.
▪ The new emphasis was to be on dining rather than drinking, and the design was as sensitive as it could have been.
▪ The new emphasis is on helping the economic Upturn which will bring down Unemployment, currently heading towards 3 million.
▪ Running and sport took on a new emphasis as it was the only way to keep warm.
particular
▪ Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation.
▪ The School places particular emphasis on its research activities in accounting and finance.
▪ As the previous section indicated, interactionism adopts a similar approach with particular emphasis on the process of interaction.
▪ By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football.
▪ However, there are also two general principles which seem to signal a particular emphasis in the public sector.
▪ Plans are made as a whole and the analysis of failed innovations places particular emphasis on wholeness.
▪ Fifth, identify the characteristics of successful firms with particular emphasis on marketing factors.
▪ Methodology places particular emphasis on the language of persuasion.
special
▪ This is where the special evangelical emphasis in the Party becomes interesting.
▪ But there should be special emphasis placed on the very latest research and literature.
▪ Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.
▪ When your life is on the line that takes on special emphasis.
▪ Concentrates on the language of letter-writing itself, with special emphasis on the build-up of vocabulary.
▪ Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion.
▪ These prices exclude Christmas and Easter. Special emphasis on good food and comfort.
▪ Prince's Garden Centre will stock a wide range of horticultural goods, with special emphasis on top-quality indoor plants.
strong
▪ Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation.
▪ Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.
▪ Level Most public library authorities place a strong emphasis on introductory materials and standard works, rather than on advanced material.
▪ Consequently, there follows a strong emphasis on the lack of any priority between the two.
▪ The cards show a strong emphasis on quality with many products still being finished by hand, giving them special appeal.
▪ The company invests in industrial, commercial and service ventures with a strong emphasis in textiles.
▪ But woman-centred feminists outside psychology place strong emphasis on method.
▪ They were raised in Hancock Park by parents who placed a strong emphasis on education.
■ VERB
change
▪ For example, the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities.
▪ This would change the emphasis from quantity to quality, encouraging people to write more genuinely important works.
▪ Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production.
▪ During my time, I changed the emphasis because I thought child abuse was far more serious.
▪ Peace-keeping operations have also significantly changed in emphasis.
give
▪ The author gives much emphasis to those aspects of his character which support this view; but is it a fair one?
▪ All points seemed to be given equal emphasis.
▪ She had no need to give it further emphasis, it could not have been clearer.
▪ Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.
▪ He gives it no emphasis, doesn't try to persuade.
▪ It gives greater rhematic emphasis to the previous chunk of information: was being a little hard to take.
▪ However, in drawing this conclusion, Piaget is giving undue emphasis to the more negative aspects of his results.
▪ Here the aims were three-fold: curbing expenditure, raising standards and giving greater emphasis to health promotion and illness prevention.
increase
▪ As the rewards to be gained from sporting success have increased, so the emphasis placed on winning has also increased.
▪ The increasing emphasis on meatless meals in restaurants and in cookbooks also provides inspiration to home cooks minding a budget.
▪ There is increasing emphasis in the development of innovative methodologies in order to secure funding for research.
▪ Value for money does not remove political judgment - it may well increase the emphasis on it.
▪ It may also have been encouraged by the increasing emphasis given to one-person exhibitions by living artists in commercial galleries and museums.
▪ We will increase emphasis on cost consciousness throughout the Group and continue to reduce overheads throughout 1993.
▪ The current volume continues the trend in previous editions of increasing the emphasis on clinical information.
lay
▪ The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
▪ They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets.
▪ They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities.
▪ Also, different kinds of organizations lay the emphasis on different views.
▪ Dobry laid great emphasis on consultations and meetings between applicants and the local planning authority, particularly in relation to Class B applications.
▪ Lord Watson laid the same emphasis in his speech, at p. 212.
▪ This view was so widely attractive that Themistokles himself was constrained to lay more emphasis on a nearer enemy, Aigina.
place
▪ It was written by individuals who believed the company should place a greater emphasis on customer service.
▪ Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.
▪ A mixed group of students would be catered for by placing greater emphasis on electives.
▪ Some firewalls place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic, and others emphasize permitting traffic.
▪ They placed great emphasis on the individual's freedom to enter into personal relationships independent of church or state.
▪ Research has found that nationwide, many academies have not placed much emphasis on integrating academic and occupational courses.
▪ I place equal emphasis on both aspects.
▪ He placed the emphasis on high street fashion.
put
▪ The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
▪ Managed-care advocates say that puts the emphasis on keeping patients healthy.
▪ Nor will managers succeed by putting greater emphasis on planning or simply overlapping various stages in the development process.
▪ Carter preferred to put the emphasis on the word separately rather than Defense.
▪ All this put the emphasis on the content and was consequently responsible for the heterogeneous nature of literary studies.
▪ You learn the essence of team, and the parents take great pride in it and put such an emphasis on winning.
▪ Unveiled last year, Pastrana's plan addresses drug issues, but puts greater emphasis on economic development.
▪ Too bad this disc puts so much emphasis on traditional folk tunes in its lessons.
shift
▪ This points to shifting the emphasis away from direct tax on people's incomes and on to taxes on wealth or on spending.
▪ He was asking her to shift her emphasis, that was all.
▪ Unlike Hart's, Friedman's explanation shifts the emphasis from the subjects' deliberations to their action.
▪ By shifting the emphasis to treatment, the wrong message is broadcast: that drugs are the solution to this terrible problem.
▪ There were also shifts in emphasis on factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
▪ With the continuation of the disorders into 1968, the administration shifted its emphasis - to that of riot control.
switch
▪ Brandt switched the emphasis from geographical variation to the study of the annual cycle of plankton growth found in the northern oceans.
▪ I will switch emphasis from attending Branch meetings to meeting on a one to one basis with these people in each branch.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lay emphasis/stress on sth
▪ In addition to the need for humility, discipline and singleminded devotion in the quest for Truth Gandhi lays stress on prayer.
▪ In the matter of ultimate aesthetic evaluation it laid stress on the intuitive response of the general public.
▪ She said that her interview had laid stress on personal circumstances rather than experience and qualifications.
place value/importance/emphasis etc on sth
▪ A government department may place emphasis on careful administration and attention to detail, to research and to political manoeuvring.
▪ In fact, these words break the sentence rhythm, placing emphasis on the words that follow.
▪ It places emphasis on external evaluation and it undervalues the individual young reader's assessment.
▪ Some place emphasis on biotic, others on environmental factors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The emphasis should be on the first syllable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion.
▪ Claire ranges back and forth at the foot of the bed, throwing her arms around for emphasis.
▪ It is worth examining briefly some of the possible explanations for this emphasis on remedial law.
▪ The emphasis was on what the student had to do that day and what might be accomplished.
▪ The emphasis was to be mainly on placements in inner city areas.
▪ The emphasis will be on real situations, real problems and real solutions.
▪ There has been an emphasis on, and lauding of, the continuity and stability.
▪ This emphasis on worship is at the heart of the gospel itself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
emphasis

emphasis \em"pha*sis\ ([e^]m"f[.a]*s[i^]s), n.; pl. Emphases ([e^]m"f[.a]*s[=e]z). [L., fr. Gr. 'e`mfasis significance, force of expression, fr. 'emfai`nein to show in, indicate; 'en in + fai`nein to show. See In, and Phase.]

  1. (Rhet.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.

    The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it.
    --E. Porter.

  2. A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.

    External objects stand before us . . . in all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and color.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

  3. a special attention given to, or extra importance attached to, something; as, a guided tour of Egypt with emphasis on the monuments along the Nile.

  4. something to which great importance is attached; as, the need for increased spending on education was the emphasis of his speech.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emphasis

1570s, "intensity of expression," from Latin emphasis, from Greek emphasis "an appearing in, outward appearance;" in rhetoric, "significance, indirect meaning," from emphainein "to present, exhibit, display, let (a thing) be seen; be reflected (in a mirror), become visible," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + phainein "to show" (see phantasm). In Greek and Latin, originally a figure of expression implying more than would ordinarily be meant by the words, it developed a sense of "extra stress" given to a word or phrase in speech as a clue that it implies something more than literal meaning. In pure Latin, significatio.

Wiktionary
emphasis

n. 1 special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. 2 Special attention or prominence given to something. 3 Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. 4 (context typography English) Related to bold.

WordNet
emphasis

  1. n. special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents" [syn: accent]

  2. intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights" [syn: vehemence]

  3. special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.

  4. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" [syn: stress, accent]

  5. [also: emphases (pl)]

Wikipedia
Emphasis (telecommunications)

In telecommunications emphasis is the intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.- frequency characteristics of the signal to reduce adverse effects of noise in a communication system or recording system. Typically, prior to some process, such as transmission over cable, or recording to phonograph record or tape, the input frequency range most susceptible to noise is boosted. This is referred to as "pre-emphasis" -- "pre-" the process the signal will undergo. Later, when the signal is received, or retrieved from recording, the reverse transformation is applied ("de-emphasis") so that the output accurately reproduces the original input. Any noise added by transmission or record/playback, to the frequency range previously boosted, is now attenuated in the de-emphasis stage.

The whole system of pre-emphasis and de-emphasis is called emphasis.

The high-frequency signal components are emphasized to produce a more equal modulation index for the transmitted frequency spectrum, and therefore a better signal-to-noise ratio for the entire frequency range.

Emphasis is commonly used in LP records and FM broadcasting.

Emphasis (typography)

In typography, emphasis is the exaggeration of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text—to emphasize them. It is the equivalent of prosodic stress in speech.

Emphasis (After Forever song)

"Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever" is a 2002 single by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever, featuring guest vocals from Damian Wilson of Threshold and a guitar solo from Ayreon mastermind Arjen Anthony Lucassen.

Emphasis

Emphasis denotes the special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important; the special attention or prominence given to something; the prominence given to a syllable or words.

Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:

  • Emphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal meant to reduce adverse effects of noise
  • Emphasis (typography), visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
  • Cultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' culture
  • Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages
  • Emphatic Diaglott, 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
  • Prosodic stress: speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands out.

Usage examples of "emphasis".

As the side porches fronting the aisles are on the same level with the main porch, the bottom part of the front is bound together, and the divisions of nave and aisle, emphasised above by the prominent buttresses, are minimised below.

This emphasis brought no surprise to the bookseller, who was accustomed to the oddities of edition hunters.

Derek Burdon was in his dressing-gown, an ornate affair which emphasised his pallor.

It clung stickily to them, and emphasised the parallel between their situation and a cestode in an alimentary canal.

The teachings of Buddhism and the Whole Earth Church had much in common, most notably the emphases on the cyclical nature of life.

Drum and cymbals broke the growling chant with a blow of fierce emphasis, and the voices all together held one long, grinding note that was like the dragging of a boulder over rock.

The girl Sadie seemed the instigator of this emphasis thrown upon Edd, and Sam ably seconded her.

The shift in emphasis, however, corresponds to the template of fetishism in that a woman is still being sought.

Due to this fetishistic emphasis, the drag queen is markedly different from the cosmetic CD, who generally opts for a more realistic interpretation of feminine dress.

My theory is that when a fetishist comes to some resolution -- usually through therapy -- about his early relationship to his mother, the fetishistic impulse diffuses from the sharp focus of the mother into a more generalized emphasis upon the symbols of women.

The fact that there was a murdered man in the house gave mournful emphasis to the transience of human life, and made Police-Constable Flack feel a glow of satisfaction in being very well indeed.

As the initial funders had died off and the enthusiasm of the dedicated artsy money had waned and endowment had been sought in more down-to-earth quarters, the curricular emphasis had switched to other arenas.

There are plans to build a big hospital and medical center here, with emphasis on geriatric care, and probably a medical school.

For added emphasis, de Graaff gave a party after the salute in honor of Captain Robinson, inviting all American agents and merchants to the entertainment, as Van Bibber happily reported to his principals in Maryland.

Many women consider that men are emotional cripples in all walks of life, but particularly as grievers, because of societal emphasis on so-called masculine attributes of self-reliance.