Englishfor English speakers
accented
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adjective
(= stressed)
bearing a stress or accent
an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'
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adjective
(= tonic)
used of syllables
a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word
symbol
Noun
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A symbol is a letter or simple picture with a particular meaning.
Most language now use the same set of symbols to represent numbers.
These symbols represent the phone's various functions.
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A symbol is a person or object that represents a group or idea.
These dead trees have become a symbol of pollution.
After a long, cold winter flowers are a symbol of hope for the new season.