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Meaning of "word stress" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WORD STRESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORD STRESS

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Word 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 WORD STRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stress (linguistics)

In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word "accent" is often used with this sense, but it may be used for other kinds of prominence; stress specifically may thus be called stress accent or dynamic accent. The stress placed on syllables within words is called word stress or lexical stress. The stress placed on words within sentences is called sentence stress or prosodic stress. The latter is one of the three components of prosody, along with rhythm and intonation.

Definition of word stress in the English dictionary

The definition of word stress in the dictionary is the stress accent on the syllables of individual words either in a sentence or in isolation.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORD STRESS

word association
word blindness
word burst
word class
word deafness
word for word
word formation
word game
word list
Word of God
word of honour
word of mouth
word order
word picture
word processing
word processor
word sense disambiguation
word square
word wrap
word wrapping

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORD 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 word stress in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «word stress» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of word stress to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of word 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 «word stress» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单词重音
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tensión de la palabra
570 millions of speakers

English

word stress
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शब्द तनाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كلمة الإجهاد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ударении
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

estresse palavra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দ চাপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accent de mot
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

penekanan perkataan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wort Stress
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

語強勢
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단어 스트레스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung stress
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trọng âm của từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வார்த்தை அழுத்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्द ताण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kelime vurgusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lo stress di parola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

słowo stres
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наголосі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stres cuvânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λέξη άγχος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

woord stres
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ordbetoning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ordet stresset
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of word stress

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORD STRESS»

The term «word stress» is regularly used and occupies the 100.334 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORD STRESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORD STRESS»

Discover the use of word stress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to word stress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Word Stress in English: A Short Treatise on the Accentuation ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
George J Tamson, 2012
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Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological Issues
As Gordon (this volume) shows, we must also reckon with cases in which the location of intonational pitch-accent seems to synchronically determine the location of word stress, such as Chickasaw (Gordon 2003). (Here I added ' synchronically' ...
Harry van der Hulst, 2014
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Studies in Early Modern English
Introduction At the International Conference on Language Contact and Linguistic Change at Rydzyna (near Poznari) on 5 — 8 June, 1991, one of the papers, presented by Gasiorowski, dealt with the intricate question of how word stress ...
Dieter Kastovsky, 1994
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Intonation
Other languages hardly use word-stress in a delimitative way at all. In particular, this is true of languages like English which have little predictability in their word- stress. Only occasionally will some combination of stress and segmental pattern ...
Alan Cruttenden, 1997
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English Pronouncing Dictionary
In the planning of this edition, an experiment was carried out to test this, and it was found that readers (both native speakers and non-native speakers of English ) do indeed take less time to read word stress patterns when the whole word is ...
Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, 2006
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Nesiga (retraction of Word Stress) in Tiberian Hebrew
Introduction 1 .1 Nesiga, the retraction of the word stress, has scarcely aroused any interest among biblical scholars in this century', despite the fact that it is one of those features of the Masoretic Text which is not well understood. It has ...
Ernest John Revell, 1987
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Principles of English Stress
This controversial new book offers a detailed and thorough analysis of word stress in English which aims to move contemporary theories of stress, and phonology more generally, in new directions.
Luigi Burzio, 1994
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English Phonetics and Phonology Paperback with Audio CDs ...
... which come after the stem (e.g. stem 'good' + suffix '-ness' — > 'goodness'). Affixes have one of three possible effects on word stress: i) The affix itself receives the primary stress (e.g. 'semi-' 82 12 Complex word stress 1 Complex words.
Peter Roach, 2009
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The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese
On the relation between word stress and the prosodic word Having determined the sources of word stress, we may now discuss the relation between word stress and the prosodic word domain. In all the cases under analysis, we have ...
Marina Vigário, 2003
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A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic: The Dialect of the Jews of Arbel
Within the intonation group we may distinguish between nuclear word stress and non- nuclear word stress. The nuclear stress is represented in the transcription by a grave accent (v) and non-nuclear stresses by an acute (v). The nuclear ...
Geoffrey Khan, 1999

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORD STRESS»

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What Does The Bible Teach About Stress
There really aren't any Bible verses on stress but if you look at synonyms for the word stress, you find an abundant number of Bible verses. Stress can be viewed ... «Christian Post, Jun 14»
2
Stress in the Modern Age: Impact on Homeostasis and What You …
In 1926, Hans Selye first used the word stress in a biological context, referring to the nonspecific response of the body to any demand placed upon it.1 He ... «Dynamic Chiropractic, Apr 14»
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10 Reasons Why You Don't Manage Stress
The stress management message is way too complicated. Dr. Hans Selye, the Canadian scientist who popularized the word stress defined it as the body's ... «Huffington Post, Sep 13»
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Teachers don't know what stress is, says Ofsted head
Teachers don't understand the real meaning of the word stress, the new Ofsted head, ... Stress is what my father felt, who struggled to find a job in the Fifties and ... «The Independent, May 12»

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