Accent
(n.) 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
(n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation |
Accent
(n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking |
Accent
(n.) A word |
Accent
(n.) expressions in general |
Accent
(n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. |
Accent
(n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. |
Accent
(n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. |
Accent
(n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period. |
Accent
(n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. |
Accent
(n.) 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
(n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc. |
Accent
(n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches |
Accent
(v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark) |
Accent
(v. t.) To mark emphatically |
Brother german
() A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. |
Cousin-german
(n.) A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1. |
Doctor
(n.) A teacher |
Doctor
(n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree |
Doctor
(n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine |
Doctor
(n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency |
Doctor
(n.) The friar skate. |
Doctor
(v. t.) To treat as a physician does |
Doctor
(v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon |
Doctor
(v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes |
Doctor
(v. i.) To practice physic. |
Fake
(n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil |
Fake
(v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out. |
Fake
(v. t.) To cheat |
Fake
(v. t.) To make |
Fake
(v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is |
Fake
(n.) A trick |
German
(a.) Nearly related |
German
(n.) A native or one of the people of Germany. |
German
(n.) The German language. |
German
(n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. |
German
(n.) A social party at which the german is danced. |
German
(n.) Of or pertaining to Germany. |
Home-speaking
(n.) Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. |
Speaking
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak |
Speaking
(a.) Uttering speech |
Speaking
(a.) Seeming to be capable of speech |
Water doctor
() One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. |
Water doctor
() A physician who treats diseases with water |
juke
fake | (football) a deceptive move made by a football player |
| doctor | children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office, the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor |
| German lesson | instruction in the German language |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German police dog
alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
black bee
German bee | darkolored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin |
German cockroach
Croton bug
crotonbug
water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
dragonfly
darning needle
devil's darning needle
sewing needle
snake feeder
snake doctor
mosquito hawk
skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
fish doctor
Gymnelis viridis | brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout |
doctorfish
doctor-fish
Acanthurus chirurgus | surgeon fish of the West Indies |
fake
sham
postiche | something that is a counterfeit, not what it seems to be |
| fake book | a fake in the form of an imitation book, used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly |
| speaking trumpet | a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice, formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person |
| speaking tube | a tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another |
medical bill
doctor's bill | statement of charges for medical services |
doctor's degree
doctorate | one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university |
Doctor of Dental Medicine
DMD | a doctor's degree in dental medicine |
Doctor of Dental Surgery
DDS | a doctor's degree in dental surgery |
Doctor of Divinity
DD | a doctor's degree in religion |
Doctor of Education
EdD
DEd | a doctor's degree in education |
Doctor of Medicine
MD | a doctor's degree in medicine |
Doctor of Music
DMus
MusD | a doctor's degree in music |
Doctor of Musical Arts
AMusD | a doctor's degree in musical arts |
Doctor of Optometry
OD | a doctor's degree in optometry |
Doctor of Osteopathy
DO | doctor's degree in osteopathy |
| Doctor of Arts D.A. | a doctor's degree with a special disciplinary focus |
| Doctor of Philosophy | a doctorate awarded for original contributions to knowledge |
Doctor of Public Health
DPH | a doctor's degree in preventive medicine |
Doctor of Theology
ThD | a doctor's degree in theology |
Doctor of Sacred Theology
STD | a doctor's degree in theology, STD is from the Latin Sanctae Theologiae Doctor |
Doctor of Arts
ArtsD | an honorary arts degree |
| Doctor of Fine Arts | an honorary degree in fine arts |
| Doctor of Humane Letters | an honorary degree in letters |
| Doctor of Humanities | an honorary degree in the humanities |
Doctor of Laws
LLD | an honorary law degree |
Doctor of Science
DS
ScD | an honorary degree in science |
| accent accent mark | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
acute accent
acute
ague | a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
grave accent
grave | a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
German
High German
German language | the standard German language, developed historically from West Germanic |
| Old High German | High German prior to |
| Middle High German | High German from to |
Low German
Plattdeutsch | a German dialect spoken in northern Germany |
| Middle Low German | Low German from to |
manner of speaking
speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
stress emphasis
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 |
tonic accent
pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness |
word stress
word accent | the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word |
| speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
| accent speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression, he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent, she had a very clear speech pattern |