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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. emphasis: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. emphasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. emphasis: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. emphasis: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Emphasis: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. emphasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. emphasis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. emphasis: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Emphasis, emphasis: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. emphasis: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. emphasis: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. emphasis: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Emphasis (telecommunications), Emphasis (typography), Emphasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Emphasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. emphasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. emphasis: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. emphasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. emphasis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. emphasis: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. emphasis: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. emphasis: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. emphasis: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. emphasis: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  24. emphasis: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. emphasis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. emphasis: Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [home, info]
  3. EMPHASIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emphasis (typography), emphasis: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emphasis: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emphasis: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emphasis: Sweetwater Music [home, info]

Quick definitions (emphasis)

noun:  special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
noun:  special importance or significance ("The red light gave the central figure increased emphasis")
noun:  intensity or forcefulness of expression ("His emphasis on civil rights")
noun:  the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

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Phrases that include emphasis:   re emphasis

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