Accent

• distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
• emphasis: special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
• dialect: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
• stress: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
• stress: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
• stress: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
• a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
• In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. A tonic accent is an emphasis on a note by virtue of being higher in pitch than surrounding notes.
• In poetry, accent refers to the stressed syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an "open class" of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or because of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress.
• In linguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation of a language. Accents should not be confused with dialects which are varieties of language differing in vocabulary and syntax as well as pronunciation. Dialects are usually spoken by a group united by geography or social status.
• The emphasis on a beat resulting in that beat’s being louder or longer than another in a measure.
• The way in which language or dialect is pronounced, commonly regarded as indicating the nationality, region, or social class of the speaker.
• Emphasis or stress on one tone over others