Emphasis (telecommunications)In signal processing, pre-emphasis is a technique to protect against anticipated noise and loss. The idea is to boost the frequency range that is most susceptible to noise and loss beforehand, so that after a noisy and lossy process (transmission over cable, tape recording...) more information can be recovered from that frequency range.Emphatic consonantSeries of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages In Semitic linguistics, an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally contrasted, and often still contrasts, with an analogous voiced or voiceless obstruent by means of a secondary articulation.Cultural emphasisCultural emphasis is an important aspect of a culture which is often reflected through language and, more specifically, vocabulary. This means that the vocabulary people use in a culture indicates what is important to that group of people. If there are many words to describe a certain topic in a specific culture, then there is a good chance that that topic is considered important to that culture.
Emphasis (typography)In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech. Methods and useThe most common methods in Western typography fall under the general technique of emphasis through a change or modification of font: italics, boldface, and small caps.
Do-supportDo-support (sometimes referred to as do-insertion or periphrasticdo) in English grammar is the use of the auxiliary verbdo (or one of its inflected forms, e.g. does) to form negatedclauses and constructions which require subject–auxiliary inversion, such as questions. The verb do can be used optionally as an auxiliary even in simple declarative sentences, usually as a means of adding emphasis (e.g. "I did shut the fridge.").IntensifierIn linguistics, an intensifier (abbreviatedint) is a lexical category (but not a traditional part of speech) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional meaning of a clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the lexical item it modifies.
Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)Emphasis! (On Parenthesis) is an album by the Stanton Moore Trio, released on April 22, 2008. Organist Robert Walter and guitarist Will Bernard, both of whom played with Moore on his previous solo album, III, are featured on the album. Notably, each track on the album features a title containing a parenthetical statement, as does the title of the album.
Emphatic (band)Emphatic was an American hard rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, founded by guitarist-songwriter Justin McCain in 2004. Their major label debut album Damage for Atlantic reached No. 9 on BillboardTop Heatseekers chart in 2011. The band's second album Another Life climbed to No. 8 on Top Heatseekers chart in 2013. Justin McCain announced changing the band's name and continuing as Through Fire in December 2015.
Emphatic DiaglottThe Emphatic Diaglott is a diaglot, or two-language polyglot translation, of the New Testament by Benjamin Wilson, first published in 1864. It is an interlinear translation with the original Greek text and a word-for-word English translation in the left column, and a full English translation in the right column. It is based on the interlinear translation, the renderings of eminent critics, and various readings of the Codex Vaticanus.
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