accenting meaning

Noun: accenting  aksenting

1. The act of giving special importance or significance to something
   - emphasizing, accentuation, emphasising [Brit]

Verb: accent  ak'sent

1. To stress, single out as important
   - stress, emphasize, emphasise [Brit], punctuate, accentuate 
2. Put stress on; utter with an accent
   "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
   - stress, accentuate

Type of: action, articulate, enounce, enunciate, evince, express, pronounce, say, show, sound out

Encyclopedia: Accent

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1. Choose accompanying ingredients for texture, color and accenting flavors.
2. Songs often use syncopation, which is the accenting of unexpected beats.
3. Syncopated rhythms contradict those conventions by accenting unexpected parts of the beat.
4. The emphasis shifted from minimizing the breasts to uplifting and accenting them.
5. But there I go again, accenting the negative.