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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emphasize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
emphasize/stress the importance of sth
▪ I'd like to emphasize the importance of reading exam questions carefully.
stress/emphasize/underline the need for sth (=say how important it is)
▪ He stressed the need for better training courses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Stone also emphasizes the extent to which women accepted the double moral standard.
▪ But it also emphasizes de-escalation of violence and a positive spirituality.
▪ Gilligan's work also emphasizes psychology's uneasy relationship with male-identified science.
▪ Mary Kadlec, who bought Video City in April, also emphasized customer service.
▪ The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
▪ He also emphasizes that men considering taking the drug first discuss it with their partner.
▪ Their recollections also emphasize his aloofness, shyness, sudden love of fun, and self-contained nature.
▪ This emphasizes also his primitive appeal to fire as the most destructive force.
further
▪ In some churches the importance of the Laudian altar was further emphasized by the addition of an elaborate new reredos.
▪ Pelmets and valances can further emphasize a particular style, as well as hiding any unsightly tracks.
how
▪ Shakespeare emphasizes how strongly the plebeians are in favour of Brutus when Antony begins to speak.
▪ This story emphasizes how important it is to be wary of strangers.
▪ Another line of argument emphasizes how women are rendered invisible in these statistics.
▪ Centex salespeople are taught to emphasize how easy the system is to operate.
▪ The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information, not confrontation.
▪ She wanted to emphasize how this was especially true in the case of race.
▪ It is the therapist's task to emphasize how capable the parent has become and encourage them to continue.
▪ He emphasizes how variegated were the personalities of these poets, and the literary styles which they practised.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ In the introduction to the Macrotext chapter of the Hypertext book, word-based and indexing language approaches are emphasized.
▪ Reinforcement theories, a third approach, emphasize the way in which behavior is learned.
▪ Both approaches, too, emphasize the importance of teacher assessment.
▪ Modern functionalist approaches continue to emphasize that state intervention is best explained by an impersonal logic of the development of advanced capitalism.
aspect
▪ Instead try to emphasize the positive aspects of your age.
▪ I have emphasized these aspects in order to help people protect themselves.
▪ The idea is to emphasize the positive aspects of your present, non-diet, way of eating.
▪ A related classification of political systems also emphasizes aspects of the relationship between the rulers and the ruled.
▪ Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science.
▪ Other models seek to emphasize the computational aspects of memory, thought, and cognitive processes.
▪ I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline.
▪ No taxonomy is used in all political analyses, because each taxonomy emphasizes different aspects of the political world.
campaign
▪ Glassheim's campaign theme emphasized change and he frequently criticized Owens.
▪ Alexander often cites the company, Child Care Inc., in his campaign speeches to emphasize his entrepreneurial skills.
▪ The campaigns used to emphasize face-to-face campaigning in early caucus and primary states, they say.
development
▪ This attitude changed by the 1950s and was emphasized by the development of cybernetics, information theory and operations research.
▪ A nurturing environment where people emphasize growth and development.
▪ As we mentioned in Chapter 3, the new Age of Psychology promotes and emphasizes the development and self-fulfilment of the individual.
▪ The managers also felt skill should have been emphasized more than development of knowledge.
▪ The fact that this was the only major correlation emphasizes that creative development is by no means easy and is always expensive.
▪ To present it in this way is to emphasize social policy developments.
▪ The central government started soft-pedaling coercion, emphasizing education and economic development.
difference
▪ Norm-referencing emphasizes relative differences between pupils while criterion-referencing stresses absolute descriptions of what pupils have achieved.
▪ However, the number of organizations this produces is unmanageable, and it also tends to emphasize differences rather than similarities.
fact
▪ We may know that authors work within determinate social and cultural conditions, but we still emphasize the fact of individual production.
▪ Handy emphasized that fact in his advertising.
▪ But this sculpture remains an isolated example, emphasizing the fact that in its earliest stage Cubism was primarily a pictorial revolution.
▪ What is being emphasized here is the fact that the two terms should not cause the proposal author confusion.
▪ Where positivists emphasize facts and cause-and-effect relationships, interactionists emphasize insight and understanding.
▪ The gift emphasized the fact that the giver was a public man.
▪ The non-party element is emphasized by the fact that not all the chairmen are government supporters.
▪ The old, familiar order remains in force, and the other parallels in chapter 26 only serve to emphasize the fact.
importance
▪ This is just one example of the many that could be quoted to emphasize the importance of shape in biological systems.
▪ Here, I want to emphasize the importance of daily connection to your kids.
▪ A psychiatrist emphasized the importance of preparing for the emotion of loss and recognizing it when it comes.
▪ P., who emphasized the importance of the berakah in connection with his studies on the Didache.
▪ Dawson emphasized the importance of combining agricultural and urban for building a strong society.
▪ The van der Luydens had done their best to emphasize the importance of the occasion.
▪ Both approaches, too, emphasize the importance of teacher assessment.
▪ The initial political socialization research emphasized the overwhelming importance of early socialization, from the family and from early educational experiences.
nature
▪ The terms near and far are used to emphasize the direction-independent nature of the Rule.
▪ This emphasizes the symbolic nature of these jewels.
▪ Monism thus generated a respect for life as a whole and helped to emphasize the unity of Nature.
▪ In other words, Melville is again emphasizing the duality of nature.
▪ Ghozali, anxious to emphasize the non-party nature of his transitional government, did not attend.
▪ This emphasizes the intentional nature of the curriculum, and the various forms and settings it can have.
▪ She emphasizes again their non-associative nature and puts forward three possibilities.
need
▪ The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
▪ They emphasize the need for the abuser to know his feelings, identify his inner frustrations and redirect his responses.
▪ Services have thus frequently emphasized the need for custody, punishment and control rather than for rehabilitation and reintegration.
▪ Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
▪ Such statutes however constitute a complicating factor and emphasize the need for long-term solutions through international understanding.
▪ To redress the imbalance between the photograph and the original he emphasizes the need for more original art in more public places.
▪ He emphasizes the need for proper training for people in both new types of job.
▪ The following chapter emphasizes the need for man to be ever in communication even through the squeeze of a hand.
point
▪ I need not here emphasize the point that nobody can expect Polybius to study the dynamics of Roman imperialism.
▪ Maybe he slams the fork on the counter, to emphasize his point.
▪ Popper emphasizes the point with a striking metaphor.
▪ You can then begin to emphasize your strong points and do something to counteract negative ones.
▪ I shall talk about a breakaway fragment in order to emphasize my point.
▪ Nevertheless, the story did have a happy ending and it does emphasize an important point.
▪ It may be used to emphasize your key points.
relationship
▪ Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy, immunology and genetics.
▪ A related classification of political systems also emphasizes aspects of the relationship between the rulers and the ruled.
▪ Gilligan's work also emphasizes psychology's uneasy relationship with male-identified science.
▪ Where positivists emphasize facts and cause-and-effect relationships, interactionists emphasize insight and understanding.
▪ Though the literature on organizational politics has emphasized one-on-one relationship building, my research moves the emphasis to the coalition.
role
▪ The second explanation, by contrast, emphasizes the role of the environment.
▪ Roman Catholics, however, emphasizing the role of free will, believe that humans can cooperate in their salvation through actions.
▪ The main purpose of this practice is to emphasize the budget's role in the cycle of planning-control-accountability.
▪ The draft proposals tend to emphasize advisory structures and roles.
▪ Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities.
▪ Qaddafi's account omits all mention of authority, just as Zuwaya do; and neither emphasizes the role of women.
▪ The present government's urban policies have emphasized the role of market forces as opposed to any sort of systematic planning.
▪ This emphasizes the role and necessity of the assumption of a strict plane symmetry.
value
▪ Conflict perspectives Although functionalists emphasize the importance of value consensus in society, they do recognize that conflict can occur.
▪ Bush courted Catholics by emphasizing abortion and family values in 1992, but lost it to Clinton.
▪ But Microsoft insists that list prices will remain high to emphasize the value of their products.
word
▪ I would emphasize the word partial.
▪ She says it again, slowly, emphasizing each word.
▪ He emphasizes that words do not depend on reality for their meaning.
■ VERB
serve
▪ Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy, immunology and genetics.
▪ However, the manner of her reincarnation only serves to emphasize that she is irrevocably gone.
▪ Unlike Woodchester, however, such geometric decoration as exists does not serve to emphasize the autonomy of the circular arrangement.
▪ But the outcome only serves to emphasize the sadistic element in the popular doctrine of the crusade.
▪ This serves to emphasize the importance of a good early assessment to decide on the client's suitability for group treatment.
▪ The old, familiar order remains in force, and the other parallels in chapter 26 only serve to emphasize the fact.
tend
▪ Such explanations tend to emphasize the possession of knowledge for its own sake.
▪ Point-factor systems tend to emphasize paying people for the positions they occupy rather than the skills they possess or their performance.
▪ Today, however, the value of care within the normal community wherever possible tends to be emphasized.
▪ However, the number of organizations this produces is unmanageable, and it also tends to emphasize differences rather than similarities.
▪ The draft proposals tend to emphasize advisory structures and roles.
▪ In product-costing Kaplan tends to emphasize cost-drivers in terms of outputs from activities, e.g. number of set-ups.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My teacher always emphasized the importance of studying hard.
▪ She emphasized the "Ms." when she introduced herself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in this case, they emphasize, short term may mean just a few months.
▪ However it should be emphasized that nominal responsibility is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training.
▪ Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
▪ No one technique works for everyone, he emphasizes.
▪ Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
▪ This aspect was emphasized by the title of his paper on Penicillium.
▪ What is being emphasized here is the fact that the two terms should not cause the proposal author confusion.
▪ When applying for a job, make sure you emphasize the interests and leisure activities that an employer would find relevant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emphasize

Emphasize \Em"pha*size\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emphasized; p. pr. & vb. n. Emphasizing.] To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emphasize

1765, from emphasis + -ize. Related: Emphasized; emphasizing.

Wiktionary
emphasize

vb. (context transitive English) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).

WordNet
emphasize
  1. v. to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate]

  2. give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, underline, emphasise]

Usage examples of "emphasize".

In understandably emphasizing the importance and the urgency of eco-holistic fit, the holists have absolutized the Lower-Right quadrant, which, in thus sealing it off from any true integration, condemns it to the fate of all fragments.

The ceiling was so low that its beams were scarred by tracks of ancipital horn points - possibly a deliberate device to emphasize the fact that the Phagorian Guard were never dehorned.

It is, however, rather the ceremonial side of apiculture that is the interesting feature and this is clearly emphasized in the Tro-Cortesianus.

The French official circles did not emit any particular statements, but the French papers emphasized that the Arbitrage decisions eliminated some very grave entanglements.

The cellular and biochemical changes which must be translated into behavioural processes such as memory formation must be precisely located in space and time, as the criteria with which I started this chapter have emphasized.

He put a kettle on to make coffee while Mrs Biggs bustled about picking things up and putting them down again in a manner which suggested that a great deal of work was being done but which merely helped to emphasize her feelings.

Missas Chubby drained the beer and the froth emphasized her moustache.

He got almost a proprietary kick out of first emphasizing the murky waters and overcrowded sands of the Croisette beaches, until she was as saddened as a child with a broken toy, and then taking her on a mere fifteen-minute ferry ride to the Ile Ste Marguerite and over the eucalyptus-shaded walks to the clean rocky coves on the other side which only a few fortunate tourists ever find.

That is typical -- Fairlanes roads emphasize getting you there, for Type A drivers, and Cruiseways emphasize the enjoyment of the ride, for Type B drivers.

And it is constantly emphasized that the doorkeeper apparently realizes none of this.

Opinions vary as to whether the doorkeeper intends the announcement that he is going to shut the gate merely as an answer, or to emphasize his devotion to duty, or because he wants to arouse remorse and sorrow in the man at the last moment.

The dampness of his shirt clung to the sculpting of his broad back, emphasizing the smooth glide of the bands of muscle that enwrapped his upper body.

What a captain did not look like, even in her most fantastical dreams, was a young man with strong regular features, six foot tall, wearing a smart, exotically stylish uniform that emphasized his powerful build.

It is crucial to emphasize at the outset that our discussion is not concerned with how the mechanical elements of a particular clock happen to respond to shaking or jostling that might result from bumpy motion.

Now that Cassie knew, she could see the resemblance to Chris and Dougthe blond hair and the blue-green eyes that Kori emphasized by wearing a turquoise necklace and ring all the time.