emphasize

em·pha·size

(ĕm′fə-sīz′)

tr.v. em·pha·sized, em·pha·siz·ing, em·pha·siz·es

1. To give emphasis to; stress: She emphasized that the matter was urgent.

2. To cause to appear important or deserving of attention: The bank failure emphasized the need for reform.

3. To give prominence of sound to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.

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emphasize

(ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz) or

emphasise

(tr) to give emphasis or prominence to; stress

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em•pha•size

(ˈɛm fəˌsaɪz)

v.t. -sized, -siz•ing.

to give emphasis to.

emphasize

Past participle: emphasized
Gerund: emphasizing

Imperative
emphasize
emphasize

Present
I emphasize
you emphasize
he/she/it emphasizes
we emphasize
you emphasize
they emphasize

Preterite
I emphasized
you emphasized
he/she/it emphasized
we emphasized
you emphasized
they emphasized

Present Continuous
I am emphasizing
you are emphasizing
he/she/it is emphasizing
we are emphasizing
you are emphasizing
they are emphasizing

Present Perfect
I have emphasized
you have emphasized
he/she/it has emphasized
we have emphasized
you have emphasized
they have emphasized

Past Continuous
I was emphasizing
you were emphasizing
he/she/it was emphasizing
we were emphasizing
you were emphasizing
they were emphasizing

Past Perfect
I had emphasized
you had emphasized
he/she/it had emphasized
we had emphasized
you had emphasized
they had emphasized

Future
I will emphasize
you will emphasize
he/she/it will emphasize
we will emphasize
you will emphasize
they will emphasize

Future Perfect
I will have emphasized
you will have emphasized
he/she/it will have emphasized
we will have emphasized
you will have emphasized
they will have emphasized

Future Continuous
I will be emphasizing
you will be emphasizing
he/she/it will be emphasizing
we will be emphasizing
you will be emphasizing
they will be emphasizing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been emphasizing
you have been emphasizing
he/she/it has been emphasizing
we have been emphasizing
you have been emphasizing
they have been emphasizing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been emphasizing
you will have been emphasizing
he/she/it will have been emphasizing
we will have been emphasizing
you will have been emphasizing
they will have been emphasizing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been emphasizing
you had been emphasizing
he/she/it had been emphasizing
we had been emphasizing
you had been emphasizing
they had been emphasizing

Conditional
I would emphasize
you would emphasize
he/she/it would emphasize
we would emphasize
you would emphasize
they would emphasize

Past Conditional
I would have emphasized
you would have emphasized
he/she/it would have emphasized
we would have emphasized
you would have emphasized
they would have emphasized

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Verb	1.	emphasize - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" accent, accentuate, stress, emphasise, punctuate background, play down, downplay - understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry" set off, bring out - direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets" re-emphasise, re-emphasize - emphasize anew; "The director re-emphasized the need for greater productivity" bear down - pay special attention to; "The lectures bore down on the political background" evince, express, show - give expression to; "She showed her disappointment" topicalize - emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence; "Speakers topicalize more often than they realize"; "The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'" point up - emphasize, especially by identification; "This novel points up the racial problems in England" press home, ram home, drive home - make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something; "drive home a point or an argument"; "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas" emphasise, underline, underscore, emphasize - give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words"
	2.	emphasize - give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words" emphasise, underline, underscore accent, accentuate, emphasize, stress, punctuate, emphasise - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

emphasize

verb

1. highlight, stress, insist, underline, draw attention to, dwell on, underscore, weight, play up, make a point of, foreground, give priority to, press home, give prominence to, prioritize I should emphasize that nothing has been finally decided as yet.
highlight play down, minimize, make light of, gloss over, underplay, soft-pedal (informal), make little of

2. stress, accent, accentuate, lay stress on, put the accent on `That's up to you,' I said, emphasizing the 'you'.

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emphasize

verb

To accord emphasis to:

accent, accentuate, feature, highlight, italicize, play up, point up, stress, underline, underscore.

Translations

يُؤَكِّدُ

zdůraznit

fremhævelægge vægt påpointereunderstrege

betonen

τονίζω

enfatizar hacer hincapié subrayar acentuar destacar

korostaa

souligner accentuer

naglasiti

leggja áherslu á

sottolineare enfatizzare mettere in evidenza puntualizzare risoluto

強調する

강조하다

poudariti

understryka

เน้น

vurgulamak

nhấn mạnh

强调

emphasize

[ˈemfəsaɪz] VT

1. [+ word, syllable] → enfatizar; [+ fact, point] → hacer hincapié en, enfatizar, subrayar, recalcar
I must emphasize that → debo insistir en que ...

2. (Ling) → acentuar

3. [garment] (= accentuate) → hacer resaltar

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emphasize

[ˈɛmfəsaɪz] vt

(= stress) [+ importance] → souligner; [+ need] → faire ressortir; [+ fact] → insister sur, mettre l'accent sur; [+ point] → souligner
to emphasize that ... → souligner que ...
I must emphasize that ... → je tiens à souligner que ...

(= highlight) [+ feature] → souligner, accentuer

[+ syllable] → accentuer; [+ word, point] → insister sur

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emphasize

vt word, syllable, hips → betonen; point, importance, difference, need also → hervorheben; it cannot be too strongly emphasized that … → man kann gar nicht genug betonen, dass …

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emphasize

[ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz] vt (word, fact, point, feature) → sottolineare; (subj, garment) → mettere in evidenza
I must emphasize that ... → devo sottolineare il fatto che...

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emphasis

(ˈemfəsis) noun – plural ˈemphases (-siːz) –

1. stress put on certain words in speaking etc; greater force of voice used in words or parts of words to make them more noticeable. In writing we sometimes underline words to show emphasis.

2. force; firmness. `I do not intend to go,' he said with emphasis.

3. importance given to something. He placed great emphasis on this point.

ˈemphasize, ˈemphasise verb

to lay or put emphasis on. You emphasize the word `too' in the sentence `Are you going too?'; He emphasized the importance of working hard.

emˈphatic (-ˈfӕ-) adjective

(negative unemphatic) expressed with emphasis; firm and definite. an emphatic denial; He was most emphatic about the importance of arriving on time.

emˈphatically adverb

to emphasize (not emphasize on) a point.

emphasize

→ يُؤَكِّدُ zdůraznit understrege betonen τονίζω enfatizar korostaa souligner naglasiti enfatizzare 強調する 강조하다 benadrukken understreke uwydatnić enfatizar подчеркивать understryka เน้น vurgulamak nhấn mạnh 强调

References in classic literature ?

This distinction should be kept in mind, but in what follows it will not be to our purpose to emphasize it.

Realism, in the broad sense, means simply the presentation of the actual, depicting life as one sees it, objectively, without such selection as aims deliberately to emphasize some particular aspects, such as the pleasant or attractive ones.

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What I am trying to emphasize is the fact that Titian's Venus is very far from being one of that sort.

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I PAID three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind of spendthrift anyway; and then these people had wanted to give me the food for nothing, scant as their provision was, and so it was a grateful pleasure to emphasize my appreciation and sincere thankfulness with a good big financial lift where the money would do so much more good than it would in my helmet, where, these pennies being made of iron and not stinted in weight, my half-dollar's worth was a good deal of a burden to me.

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She threw out her hands to emphasize her words and Raoul turned pale, not only because of the words which he had heard, but because he had caught sight of a plain gold ring on Christine's finger.

View in context

Occasionally he would cease to remember it, and be about to emphasize an oath with a sweeping gesture.

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Instead he focuses on the fear of annihilation that causes the religiously committed on both sides to emphasize the elements of their religion that negate the Other, because they feel a duty to protect their religious tradition.

Between Eden and Armageddon: the future of world religions, violence and peacemaking

But to do so, photographers must somehow emphasize one over the other through size, focus and scale.

Linking People to Places: Create Emphasis Through Size, Scale and Focus

Both this specific guidance and our manual emphasize the importance of sound financial analysis of counterparties that can quickly adjust their risk profiles.

Statement by Laurence H. Meyer, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, March 24, 1999

In the pre-War period, Le Corbusier used colour to emphasize the nature of walls as planes emphasizing, or sometimes subverting,(7) the spatial and formal qualities of space and form.

True colours: the glorious polychromy of the past suggests a strong historical need for colour, despite current reductive fashions

"We added this language to the code itself to emphasize that no matter how diverse various regulatory regimes are, certain basics of the IFAC ethics code have to be adhered to."

IFAC proposes ethics upgrade

The guidelines emphasize that adults should not allow their weight to creep up with age, and they advise that adults get 30 minutes of moderate exercise such as gardening, housework, or walking every day.

Government guidelines okay vegetarian diet

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