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Ascent vs. Accent — What's the Difference?

Ascent vs. Accent — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ascent and Accent

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Ascent

A climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill
The first ascent of the Matterhorn

Accent

The relative prominence of a particular syllable of a word by greater intensity or by variation or modulation of pitch or tone.

Ascent

An instance of rising or moving up through the air
The first balloon ascent was in 1783

Accent

Vocal prominence or emphasis given to a particular syllable, word, or phrase.

Ascent

The act or process of rising or going upward.
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Accent

One determined by the regional or social background of the speaker.

Ascent

An advancement, especially in social status.

Accent

One determined by the phonetic characteristics of the speaker's native language carried over to that speaker's use of another language.

Ascent

An upward slope or incline.

Accent

A mark or symbol used in the printing and writing of certain languages to indicate the vocal quality to be given to a particular letter
An acute accent.

Ascent

A going back in time or upward in genealogical succession.

Accent

A mark or symbol used in printing and writing to indicate the stressed syllables of a spoken word.

Ascent

The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.

Accent

Rhythmically significant stress in a line of verse.

Ascent

The way or means by which one ascends.

Accent

Emphasis or prominence given to a note or chord, as by an increase in volume or extended duration.

Ascent

An eminence, hill, or high place.

Accent

A mark representing this.

Ascent

The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.

Accent

A mark used as a superscript to distinguish among variables represented by the same symbol.

Ascent

(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.

Accent

A mark used as a superscript to indicate the first derivative of a variable.

Ascent

An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

Accent

A mark or one of several marks used as a superscript to indicate a unit, such as feet (′) and inches (") in linear measurement.

Ascent

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
To him with swift ascent he up returned.

Accent

A distinctive feature or quality, such as a feature that accentuates, contrasts with, or complements a decorative style.

Ascent

The way or means by which one ascends.

Accent

Something that accentuates or contrasts something else, as a touch of color that makes the features of an image stand out.

Ascent

An eminence, hill, or high place.

Accent

Particular importance or interest; emphasis
The accent is on comfort.

Ascent

The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

Accent

To stress or emphasize the pronunciation of
Accented the first syllable in “debacle.”.

Ascent

An upward slope or grade (as in a road);
The car couldn't make it up the rise

Accent

To mark with a printed accent.

Ascent

A movement upward;
They cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon

Accent

To focus attention on; accentuate
A program that accents leadership development.

Ascent

The act of changing location in an upward direction

Accent

(linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
In the word "careful", the accent is placed on the first syllable.

Accent

(figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
At this hotel, the accent is on luxury.

Accent

(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
The name Cézanne is written with an acute accent.

Accent

Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.

Accent

The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
A foreign accent
A broad Irish accent
A hint of a German accent

Accent

A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
My professor's accent is so thick that it's difficult to understand her lectures.
She spoke with a strong accent that betrayed her southern roots.
I was surprised to learn that he was an immigrant, as he spoke without any accent.

Accent

(sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.

Accent

A word; a significant tone or sound.

Accent

Expressions in general; speech.

Accent

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Accent

(music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

Accent

(music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

Accent

(music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.The third and fourth symbols are accents (marks used to represent special emphasis in music).

Accent

(music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.

Accent

(mathematics) A prime symbol.

Accent

Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
Accent color

Accent

A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.

Accent

(archaic) Utterance.

Accent

(transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.

Accent

(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

Accent

(transitive) To mark with written accents.

Accent

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

Accent

A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

Accent

Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
The tender accent of a woman's cry.

Accent

A word; a significant tone
Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear,Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

Accent

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Accent

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

Accent

A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y´, y.

Accent

To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.

Accent

To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

Accent

Distinctive manner of oral expression;
He couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent
She had a very clear speech pattern

Accent

Special importance or significance;
The red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
The room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents

Accent

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

Accent

The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch);
He put the stress on the wrong syllable

Accent

A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

Accent

To stress, single out as important;
Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet

Accent

Put stress on; utter with an accent;
In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word

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