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Meaning of "secondary stress" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SECONDARY STRESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SECONDARY STRESS

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Secondary stress is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SECONDARY STRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Secondary stress

Secondary stress is the weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word; the stronger degree of stress is called 'primary'. The International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for secondary stress is a short vertical line preceding and at the foot of the stressed syllable: the nun in proˌnunciˈation. Another tradition in English is to assign acute and grave accents for primary and secondary stress: pronùnciátion. Most languages, if they have stress at all, have only one degree of it on the phonemic level. That is, each syllable has stress or it does not. Many languages have rhythmic stress; location of the stress may not be predictable, but once the location of one stressed syllable is known, certain syllables before or after can be predicted to also be stressed; these may have secondary stress. An example is Dutch, where the rule is that initial and final syllables take secondary stress, then every alternate syllable before and after the primary stress, as long as two stressed syllables are not adjacent and stress does not fall on /ə/. See Dutch phonology: Stress.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SECONDARY STRESS

secondary colour
secondary dentition
secondary education
secondary emission
secondary era
secondary glazing
secondary growth
secondary infection
secondary modern
secondary modern school
secondary picket
secondary picketing
secondary processes
secondary product
secondary qualities
secondary road
secondary school
secondary school teacher
secondary sexual characteristic
secondary tumour

WORDS THAT END LIKE SECONDARY STRESS

actress
address
de-stress
distress
enchantress
fortress
huntress
in distress
inner spring mattress
mattress
mistress
seamstress
seductress
shear stress
stress
supporting actress
temptress
tensile stress
tress
waitress
yield stress

Synonyms and antonyms of secondary stress in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «secondary stress» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SECONDARY STRESS

Find out the translation of secondary stress to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of secondary stress from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «secondary stress» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

二次应力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estrés secundaria
570 millions of speakers

English

secondary stress
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माध्यमिक तनाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإجهاد الثانوي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

побочное ударение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acento secundário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সেকেন্ডারি স্ট্রেস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le stress secondaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tekanan sekunder
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sekundär Stress
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

二次応力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

차 스트레스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stres sekunder
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

căng thẳng thứ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரண்டாம் நிலை அழுத்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

माध्यमिक ताण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sekonder stres
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stress secondario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stres wtórny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

побічне наголос
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stres secundar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δευτεροβάθμια στρες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sekondêre stres
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sekundär spänning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sekundær belastning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of secondary stress

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SECONDARY STRESS»

The term «secondary stress» is regularly used and occupies the 86.214 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SECONDARY STRESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about secondary stress

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SECONDARY STRESS»

Discover the use of secondary stress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to secondary stress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice ...
This book: DT Provides critical information about the dangers of compassion fatigue/burnout and vicarious post-traumatic stress disorder in health care settings DT Introduces a newly-developed "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress ...
Department of Pastoral Counseling Loyola College Robert J. Wicks Professor, Maryland, 2005
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Secondary Stress in English Words
The analyses prove that Fudge's (1984) classification of prefixes and compound-initials can successfully be incorporated into Burzio's (1994) framework: these are assigned pre-determined structures.
Nora Wenszky, 2004
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A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in English and Dutch
1. Introduction In the preceding chapters we have discussed the phenomenon of syllable structure and that of primary stress assignment in Dutch. This leaves to be discussed the closely related issues of secondary stress and vowel reduction.
René Kager, 1989
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English Pronouncing Dictionary
(d) Secondary stresses have only limited occurrence after a primary stress: such a secondary stress is only marked in closed or hyphenated compound words where the second element is polysyllabic (e.g. 'fishmonger). (e) Stress assignment ...
Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, 2006
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Secondary Stress in Anglo-Saxon: Determined by Metrical ...
A Dissertation Presented To The Board Of University Studies Of The Johns Hopkins University For The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy.
Julian Huguenin, 2010
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Advanced Strength of Materials
53 there will be secondary stress at the supporting ring, because it causes a concentrated loading there with consequent discontinuity in the stress; there is no secondary stress, however, at the free surface of the oil, because the discontinuity ...
J. P. Den Hartog, 1987
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The Resilient Clinician
Informed by positive psychology and infused with compassion and wisdom, this book will help clinicians remain challenged, maintain perspective, and be inspired both professionally and personally.
Graduate Program in Pastoral Counseling Loyola College Robert J. Wicks Professor, Maryland, 2007
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
which is pronounced with a certain degree of stress, but with less than primary stress. This symbol is only used on the words in bold, eg .abdication, since one of the functions of the secondary stress mark is to indicate that a particular syllable ...
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Secondary Traumatic Stress and Resilience Among ...
In addition, participants completed the Secondary Stress Scale (STSS) as a measure of secondary traumatic stress (Bride et al., 2004) and the Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) to assess resilience (Connor & Davidson, 2003).
Jody Gottesman, 2008
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English Prosodic Morphology
The hypothesis that disyllabic clipping can be triggered by secondary stress on the second syllable cannot explain this form, given that in the base, contiguity ([ kɒntijuiti]), the second syllable is unstressed. By contrast, we can explain this form if ...
Sabine Lappe, 2008

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SECONDARY STRESS»

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Double dip redundancies blamed for peak in stress-induced …
Experts report that, over the last two years, scores of women have developed agonising neck and back pain and headaches as a result of 'secondary stress'. «Daily Mail, Aug 12»

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