What does emphasize mean?
Definitions for emphasize
ˈɛm fəˌsaɪzem·pha·size
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word emphasize.
Princeton's WordNet
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuateverb
to stress, single out as important
"Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasiseverb
give extra weight to (a communication)
"Her gesture emphasized her words"
Wiktionary
emphasizeverb
To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.
Etymology: from – see emphasis.
ChatGPT
emphasize
To emphasize means to give special importance, value, or prominence to something, often through methods such as repetition, stress in speech, or added detail. It can also refer to making a point or idea more noticeable or easy to understand.
Webster Dictionary
Emphasizeverb
to utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase
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British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'emphasize' in Verbs Frequency: #726
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of emphasize in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of emphasize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of emphasize in a Sentence
It's important to emphasize: This particular outbreak of CRE is not a threat to the health of the public in Los Angeles County.
Their bright, resonant sopranos blend impeccably; Davie's Violet tackles the top notes with a delicacy and ardor that emphasize fragility and fear, while Padgett gives Daisy pluck and wit.
A lot of transmission during the Omicron and BA.2 era has been household contact, where the entire family or your household unit gets infected. But really, what I see -- and I emphasize this over and over -- is that it is social gatherings that are unmasked.
Doctors need to emphasize they will not abandon the patient with end-stage disease, and that there are ways to help that are not ‘active treatment,’.
It is important to emphasize that the study mainly shows modest but significant improvement in short-term memory, but does not show clear effects on long-term memory since the test was based on word recall only a minute or so after learning the words, cognitive experts would say what you recall from an hour ago is long-term memory.
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Translations for emphasize
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- شددArabic
- изтъквам, подчертавамBulgarian
- emfatitzarCatalan, Valencian
- zdůraznitCzech
- betonenGerman
- υπογραμμίζωGreek
- subrayar, enfatizarSpanish
- اهمیت دادنPersian
- korostaa, tähdentää, painottaaFinnish
- soulignerFrench
- emfazarIdo
- evidenziare, sottolineare, enfatizzareItalian
- להדגישHebrew
- アクセント, 強調Japanese
- miramiraMāori
- benadrukkenDutch
- enfatizarPortuguese
- подчеркнуть, подчёркиватьRussian
- poudáritiSlovene
- betona, understrykaSwedish
- வலியுறுத்தTamil
- เน้นThai
- підкреслитиUkrainian
- زور دیناUrdu
- ונטערשטרייַכןYiddish
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