Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Emphasis

Definition: Emphasis

Emphasis

Noun

1. 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".

2. Intensity or forcefulness of expression: "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "emphasis" was first used: 1573. (references)

Etymology: Emphasis \Em"pha*sis\, noun; plural Emphases. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression significance, force of expression, from to show in, indicate; in to show. See In, and Phase.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Emphasis

DomainDefinition

Computing

For the purpose of Office Document Architecture(ODA), a feature which concerns the imaging of the graphic characters on the presentation medium. Source: European Union. (references)

Electrical Engineering

The intentional alteration of the amplitude, phase, frequency, or shape characteristics of a signal to reduce adverse effects of noise in a communication system. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Specialty Definition: Emphasis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Emphasis: In FM transmission, the intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal to reduce adverse effects of noise in a communication system.

Note: 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.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Emphasis."

Top     



Emphasis (typography)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In typography, emphasis usually refers to means of stressing parts of a text by using different types of letters to make them stand out from the main text body or employing different alphabets or characters but with the same meaning or sounds.

The human eye is very receptive to differences in brightness over a text body. One can therefore differentiate between types of emphasis according to whether the emphasis changes the "blackness" of text.


Fig. 1: Emphasis example
A means of emphasis that does not have much effect on "blackness" is printing in italics, where the vertical orientation of all letters is tilted to the right. With this technique, words can be highlighted without making them "stick out" much from the rest of the text. Traditionally, this is used for marking passages that have a different context, such as words from foreign languages (for example, in German: Fremdsprachen), book titles, etc.

By contrast, boldface makes text darker than its surroundings. With this technique, the emphasized text strongly stands out from the rest; it should therefore be used to highlight certain keywords when it is presumed that the reader might be looking for certain passages while allowing him to skim over those that deal with other topics. For example, printed dictionaries and other wordbooks would use boldface for their keywords; Wikipedia follows this convention when the keyword that an article was written for is marked at the top.

With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by temporarily replacing the current typeface. Professional typographic systems (which include most modern computers) would therefore not simply tilt letters to the right to achieve italics (that is instead referred to as slanting) or print them darker for boldface, but instead use entirely different typefaces that achieve the effect. As can be seen in Fig. 1, the "w" letter, for example, looks quite different in italics compared to the regular typeface.

As a result, typefaces therefore have to be supplied at least fourfold (with computer systems, usually as four font files): as regular, italics, bold, and both bold and italics to provide for all combinations. Professional typefaces sometimes offer even more variations for popular fonts, with varying degrees of blackness. Only if such fonts are not available, the effect of italics or boldface should be imitated by tilting or blacking the original font.


Fig. 2: Fraktur emphasis example
In Germany, a different means of emphasis was used earlier. To achieve a variance in blackness, instead of making the letters darker, one would increase the spacing between them. This resulted in an effect reverse to boldface: the emphasized text becomes lighter than its environment. This was referred to as sperren in German, which could here be translated as "spacing out". While sperren normally means "to lock (out)", this particular meaning was figurative: with the older method of typesetting with letters of lead, the spacing would be achieved by inserting additional non-printing slices of metal between the types.

The reason for this particular German typographic convention must be seen in the traditional use of Fraktur typefaces, for which boldface was not feasible, since the letters were very dark in the first place. With its demise after Nazi Germany (see Fraktur for details) went the use of spacing as a means of emphasis not long after.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Emphasis (typography)."

Top     

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Emphasis

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

EMPHASIS

EnglishArchitectures Software and Hardware for MPEG-4 SystemsComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Synonyms: Emphasis

Synonyms: accent (n), accentuation (n), stress (n), vehemence (n). (additional references)

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Emphasis

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affirmation

With emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction.

Emphasis; weight; dogmatism; (certainty); dogmatics.

Importance

Import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest.

Voice

Accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Emphasis

English words defined with "emphasis": actually, any old, assign, At allBy and bycapitaldeemphasize, destress, drive homeEmphases, emphasised, emphasized, emphatic, Emphatical, Emphaticalness, Epizeuxis, Every now and thenfocusHoly One, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodnessintensivelay, literalMyselfneoliberalism, Nonemphaticalold, overemphasis, overemphasise, overemphasize, overstressPalilogy, Paragogic letters, pitch accent, place, ploce, pop, pop music, pose, position, press home, pure and simple, putram home, ritualism, run, running, running game, running playsacerdotal, set, Sforzato, stress, sure-enoughTo hang on, tonic accentupper case, upper-case lettervehemence, verywell. (references)
Specialty definitions using "emphasis": Ada, Advanced techniques integration into efficient scientific application software, ALFE, As a blank on the 4th of Julybranch manager, business incubatorCanadian Standards Association, Child Guidance, Child Rearing, Competency-Based Education, corporate manager, CSA InternationaldBA, demoparty, DIRECTOR, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, drug useEthnobotanyFederal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, formal long-range planningGALLEY STRIPPER, Gestalt Therapyhas the X nature, Hospitals, Osteopathic, Hydrogeologyincubator centre, integration af avancerede teknikker til effektivt videnskabeligt applikationsprogrammelLPGmanaged workspace, MANAGER, BROKERAGE OFFICE, metallogeny, MyselfNEL PASTEL, Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary, NEXRAD, Nurse Cliniciansoffice manager, Orthopsychiatrypainter, railroad car, pedestrian friendly design, penis war, petrographic analysis, petrographic examination, Population CharacteristicsRAILROAD-CAR LETTERER, research parkSingular in Meaning, slanted abstract, Socioenvironmental Therapy, story, strategic planningthematic mapper, tilted portfolio, Time and Motion Studies, top down, Toxicity AssessmentUnicodeWEEDER-THINNER, Whether, Which Stands For Nothing, Wholesale Price Index/WPIYo, Yow!. (references)
Etymologies containing "emphasis": findy. (references)

Top     

Commercial Usage: Emphasis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Conditioning, Spawning and Rearing of Fish With Emphasis on Marine Clownfish (reference)

  • The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, With Special Emphasis on the Conflict Between Religion and philos (reference)

  • The Body Can Speak: Essays on Creative Movement Education With Emphasis on Dance and Drama (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Photo Album: Emphasis

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Cattle belonging to farmer on Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon. As the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project grows older, the dairy and beef herds are both assuming greater emphasis in farm economy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Top     

Digital Photo Gallery: Emphasis
 

"Black and White Squirrel" by Philip Jackson
Commentary: "A squirrel on a tree in Hyde park. The picture was virtually colourless before i greyscaled it. the emphasis is firmly on the texture in picture."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Top     

Sounds Captioned with "Emphasis".

PlayCaption
A very stiff and square style of playing in which the emphasis is on the beat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Familiar Quotations: Emphasis

AuthorQuotation

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul's emphasis is always right.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Use in Literature: Emphasis

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This was perceived also from a certain emphasis in his speech

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He waited to let the whole emphasis of the preceding passage disappear and be forgotten

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Emphasis

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

NINDS has also placed an increased emphasis on expediting clinical trials for neurological disorders. (references)

The changing epidemiology of meningococcal disease in the U.S. with an emphasis on college health issues. (references)

In contrast, osteopaths place particular emphasis on the musculoskeletal system and practice osteopathic manipulation. (references)

Business

Argentina’s emphasis on and support for export activities. (references)

Eskom is also placing a greater emphasis on regional opportunities. (references)

Increasing emphasis is being placed on quality and environmental standards. (references)

Children

Slovak Republic

Existing legislation appears to place emphasis on parents' rights over children's rights. (references)

Bahrain

Greater emphasis has been given in recent years to public building design that incorporates access for persons with disabilities; however, the law does not mandate access to buildings for persons with disabilities. (references)

Turkey

Traditional family values in rural areas place a greater emphasis on advanced education for sons than for daughters; the relatively new 8-year compulsory education requirement (implemented in 1998) was expected to ensure that more girls continued their education. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

The focus apparently was on potential loan defaulters as part of the Musharraf Government's emphasis on accountability. (references)

Botswana

BTV began broadcasting with technical and programming assistance from the British Broadcasting Corporation, and an emphasis on the Setswana language service. (references)

Tanzania

The CUF party, perceived by many voters as being the "party of Muslims," apparently lost ground on the mainland due to the heavy emphasis that its candidates placed on religious issues. (references)

Economic History

North Korea

There also was more emphasis on trade. (references)

Saudi Arabia

For the third plan (1980-85), the emphasis changed. (references)

Philippines

The Arroyo government is putting an emphasis on poverty alleviation. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

Prosecutors continued to place emphasis on securing convictions through confessions. (references)

Haiti

Government officials state that this was the beginning of a renewed emphasis on decreasing the number of pretrial detainees. (references)

Mozambique

The report's critical assessment gave particular emphasis to problems in the judiciary, conditions in prisons, freedom of the press, and arbitrary arrest and detention of citizens. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

In recent decades, Muslims have put more of an emphasis on education, particularly the education of girls. (references)

Japan

Obstacles to naturalization include broad discretion available to adjudicating officers and great emphasis on Japanese-language ability. (references)

Philippines

The national culture, with its emphasis on familial, tribal, and regional loyalties, creates informal barriers whereby access to jobs or resources is provided first to those of one's own family or group. (references)

Political Economy

Netherlands

Reforms are continuing with a stronger emphasis on market flexibility. (references)

MOROCCO

The Moroccan government has placed an increasing emphasis on transparency. (references)

Tunisia

TUNISIA IS A STABLE COUNTRY, LARGELY DUE TO ITS EMPHASIS ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

An extensive cabinet change in April expanded the Cabinet from 24 to 35 ministers, restructured existing ministries, and created several new ministries to place greater emphasis on important national issues, such as population, the environment, and human rights. (references)

Swaziland

In general the report concluded that most Swazis want a continuation of the status quo, a strengthening of the King's powers, a continued ban against political parties, greater emphasis on traditional law and custom, and stiffer penalties for those who speak against the state. (references)

Trade

Senegal

AFDB is currently putting a great emphasis on private sector financing. (references)

Travel

Chad

The country places a strong emphasis on a "Chadians first" policy. (references)

Vietnam

Relatively little emphasis should be placed on the specifics of your objectives. (references)

France

Today, many French executives put less emphasis on long, heavy business lunches for reasons of health and time. (references)

Women

Hungary

NGO's also reported that there is insufficient emphasis on the protection of female crime victims. (references)

Micronesia

However, with increasing urbanization and monetarization of the economy, greater emphasis has been placed on the nuclear family, and the traditional methods of coping with family discord are breaking down. (references)

South Africa

At year's end, the parliamentary monitoring committee on women's affairs was completing consultations with NGO's and local and national government officials regarding defects in the domestic violence laws, preparing a report for the relevant ministries on how the legislation could be modified to ensure more effective implementation, and focusing on efforts to ensure that the budget oversight process included greater emphasis on the effects of government programs on women. (references)

Worker Rights

Nauru

The NPC has an active safety program that includes an emphasis on worker education and the use of safety equipment such as helmets, safety shoes, and dust respirators. (references)

Uzbekistan

Trade unions are described legally as organizations that defend the right to work and to protect jobs, and emphasis is placed on the unions' responsibility for "social protection" and social justice--especially unemployment compensation, pensions, and worker retraining. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Spoken Usage: Emphasis

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Andrew Weil

Well, there is the tree and cardboard school of health food, which all of us are familiar with. We have a real emphasis on flavor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Speeches: Emphasis

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Its character has been pronounced by the indignant voices of our citizens with an emphasis and unanimity never exceeded.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977The emphasis on our economic efforts must now shift from inflation to jobs.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Scholarships and background checks for child care workers, and a new emphasis on early learning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Emphasis

"Emphasis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.85% of the time. "Emphasis" is used about 5,349 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.85%5,3411,830
Noun (proper)0.15%8124,375
                    Total100.00%5,349N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Expressions: Emphasis

Expressions using "emphasis": give emphasis to lay emphasis on lay great emphasis on main emphasis put emphasis on simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis with emphasis. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "emphasis": de-emphasis, over-emphasis, re-emphasis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Emphasis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

emphasis

22

emphasis i inspect obvious one our quality when

15

emphasis fitness increase spiritual

14

emphasis increase prevention suicide

14

emphasis provider

6

emphasis english focus in

5

emphasis program special

4

cost accounting a managerial emphasis

4

emphasis model

4

design emphasis

4

emphasis study

4

achieving device emphasis english focus in language standard

3

emphasis general

3

art emphasis point

3

adding device discourse emphasis english focus grammar in language

3

emphasis pre

3

appearance emphasis essay physical

2

adding device emphasis english focus in

2

business emphasis entrepreneurial management small

2

development emphasis field much owed research success this

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Emphasis

Language Translations for "emphasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

theksim (accent, accentuation, stress), theks (accent, stress), shprehje (exponent, expression, locution, loose, phrase, phrases, profession, term, transfusion, utterance, voice), forcë (coercion, effect, energy, force, intensity, might, mightiness, muscle, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, strain, strength, vigor, vigour, violence). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نبرة (accent, ring, strain, stress, tone), ‏توكيد (accent, affirmation, assertion, assertiveness, assurance, confirmation, predication), ‏تشديد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

яснота на контурите, ударение (accent, stress), наблягане (stress), живост на колорита, емфастичност, емфаза, подчертаване (accentuation, stress, underlining, underscoring), подчертаност (broadness, studiousness). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

重點 (focal point), 重点 (Emphases). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dùraz (accent, stress). (various references)

   

Danish

  

eftertryk (stress), tryk (pressure, print), fremhævning, accentuering (accentuation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nadruk (accent, reprint, stress), klem (accent). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

emfazo (accent). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

herðing (accent, stress), dentur (accent). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

قوت (Accent, Bread, Intensity, Maintenance, Nourishment, Nutrition, Pith, Punch, Strength, Stress, Vis), تکیه (Loll, Reliance, Stay), تاکید (Accent, Stress, Underscore), اهمیت (Circumstance, Dimension, Gravity, Importance, Magnitude, Moment, Notability, Pith, Significance, Stress, Valor). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

korostus (stress). (various references)

   

French

  

emphase, accentuation. (various references)

   

German

  

nachdruck (energy, reprint, reprinting, stress, vigor, vigour), betonung (accent, accentuation, intonation, marking, stress, stressing), akzent (accent, stress). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έμφαση (stress). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

הדגשה (accent, stress), הבלטה (conspicuity, projection, prominence, splash, stress), הבלט (projection), הטעמה (accentuation, recitation, stress), דגש (centre mark, dagesh, stress). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyomaték (accents, moment, momentum, stress, vigor, vigour, weight), hangsúly (accent, stress, tone). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

titik berat, aksentuasi (accentuating, stress). (various references)

   

Italian

  

enfasi (stress). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

重点 (colon, important point, lay stress on), 重味 (dignity, importance, weight), 重み (dignity, importance, weight), 重き (importance, stress), 力説 (insistence, stress), 力点 (importance, leverage), (ability, agency, attainment, authority, capability, efficacy, endeavors, energy, exertions, faculty, force, good offices, help, influence, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor), 強調 (stress, stressed point), 強意 , エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enter, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement), 中心  (balance, center, core, heart, pivot), 中心 (balance, center, core, heart, pivot), 主張 (advocacy, assertion, claim, contention, insistence, opinion, request, tenet). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おもみ (dignity, importance, weight), おもき (importance, stress), しゅちょう (advocacy, assertion, chief, claim, contention, head, insistence, keynote, main current, main melody, opinion, request, swelling, tenet), きょうい (Board of Education, chest measurement, menace, miracle, threat, wonder), きょうちょう (conciliation, co-operation, evil omen, firmtone, harmony, stress, stressed point), りきせつ (insistence, stress), りきてん (importance, leverage), エンファシス , じゅうてん (colon, fill, filling, important point, lay stress on, loading, plug, replenish), ちから (ability, agency, attainment, authority, capability, efficacy, endeavors, energy, exertions, faculty, force, good offices, help, influence, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor), ちゅうしん (balance, center, core, devotion, faithfulness, heart, information, innermost feelings, loyal retainer, loyal subject, making a report, moderate earthquake, pivot). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

강조 (Accenting, criticality, Emphases, Emphasizing, highlighting). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trimmid (bounteousness, burdensomeness, charge, density, density of fog, graveness, gravity, hardness, hardness of work, harshness, harshness of punishment, heaviness, highness, importance, intenseness, pressure, seriousness, severity, soundness, stress, weight, weightiness), doccar coraagh (emphatic). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ettertrykk. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emphasisay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ênfase (accent, pomposity, significance, stress). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

elocinţã (eloquence, oratory, rhetoric), vigoare (effect, energy, flush, force, pep, rankness, sap, snap, stamina, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, vigor, vigour, vim), subliniere (accent, accentuation, averment, stress, underlining), intensitate (depth, force, intension, intensity, loudness), accentuare (accenting, accentuation), accent (accent, pronunciation, stress, tone). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подчеркивание (accentuation, underline). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

isticanje (efflux, expiration, leakage, outgo). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

énfasis (accent, stress). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

eftertryck (energy, piracy, reprint). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การเน้นย้ำ, ความสำคัญ (heft, moment). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vurgu (accent, ictus, point, stress, word accent), üzerinde durulan nokta, önem (accent, account, amount, consequence, consideration, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, prominence, regard, significance, significancy, stature, strength, stress, substantiality, value, weight). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

виразність (audibility, clearness, conciseness, concision, definition, distinctiveness, explicitness, expression, legibility, orotundity), виділення (allotment, appropriation, assignment, distillation, emission, excretion, exudation, waste), наголос (accent, stress), акцент (accent, stress), підкреслювання (accentuation). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pwyslais. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Emphasis

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

emphasis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Emphasis

Derivations

Words beginning with "emphasis": emphasise, emphasised, emphasises, emphasising. (additional references)

Words ending with "emphasis": misemphasis, overemphasis, reemphasis, underemphasis. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Emphasis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amphissa, empahsis, empha, emphaasise, emphacyte, emphas, emphase, emphasi, emphasie, emphasiser, emphasys, emphises, emphsis, enphasis, enphasise, ephapses, Euphausia, euphausiid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Emphasis"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "emphasis" (pronounced e"mfusi's)
4-u s i' sparalysis, parenthesis, Telesis.
3-s i' sasbestosis, basis, Cassis, electrophoresis, endometriosis, lexis, lysis, oasis, osmosis, osteoporosis, pertussis, praxis, Pyxis, sepsis.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Emphasis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: misshape.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-p-s-s"

-1 letter: aphesis, impasse, mashies, messiah, mishaps.

-2 letters: aspish, mashes, mashie, mishap, pashes, passim, phases, phasis, pishes, sepias, shames, shapes, spahis.

-3 letters: amies, amiss, aphis, apish, apses, apsis, ashes, aspis, ephas, haems, hames, hasps, heaps, hemps, masse, mesas, mises, paise, pases, passe, phase, pimas, samps, seams, seism, semis, sepia, shame, shams, shape, sheas, shies, shims.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-p-s-s"
 

+1 letter: emphasise, mateships, misphrase, misshaped, misshapen, misshapes, samphires, seraphims, shipmates, steamship, wampishes.

 

+2 letters: empathises, emphasised, emphasises, emphasizes, mastership, mispatches, misphrased, misphrases, pantheisms, reemphasis, seamanship, shipmaster, steamships, sympathies, sympathise.

 

+3 letters: amphioxuses, blasphemies, emphasising, homoplasies, masterships, messiahship, metaphysics, misemphases, misemphasis, misshapenly, penmanships, seamanships, seismograph, shipmasters, sympathised, sympathises, sympathizes.

 

+4 letters: accomplishes, amphisbaenas, atmospherics, comradeships, deemphasizes, foremanships, gamesmanship, helmsmanship, horsemanship, hypermnesias, lifemanships, managerships, messiahships, misanthropes, misemphasize, overemphasis, primateships, reemphasizes, salesmanship, scyphistomae, seismographs, seismography, sympathetics, sympathizers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Images: Digital Art
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Spoken
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.