stress
Noun
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is a type of: inflection, prosody - the patterns of stress and intonation in a languagesubtypes:
- accentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
- pitch accent, tonic accent - emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
- word accent, word stress - the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
- sentence stress - the distribution of stresses within a sentence
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referred to in: psychological science, psychology - the science of mental lifeis a type of: mental strain, nervous strain, strain - (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stresssubtypes:
- yips - nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)
- breaking point - (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial
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same as: focus
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is a type of: difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcomesame as: strain
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referred to in: natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactionsis a type of: force - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantitysubtypes:
- tension - (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
- breaking point - the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks
Verb
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subtypes:
- background, downplay, play down - understate the importance or quality of
- bring out, set off - direct attention to, as if by means of contrast
- re-emphasise, re-emphasize - emphasize anew
- bear down - pay special attention to
- topicalize - emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
- point up - emphasize, especially by identification
- drive home, press home, ram home - make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
- emphasise, emphasize, underline, underscore - give extra weight to (a communication)
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is a type of: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out - speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain waysame as: accent, accentuate
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is a type of: afflict - cause great unhappiness for; distresssubtypes: rack - stretch to the limits
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