relative emphasis
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandemphasis
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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emphasis
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈem.fə.sɪs/us/ˈem.fə.sɪs/
the particular importance or attention that is given ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandemphasisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Table 7 provides the summary of findings on therelativeemphasisof nouns and verbs in the caregiver input for both languages.
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The point of these contingent responses is to observe therelativeemphasiswhich officials choose to give.
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The difference, then, is one ofrelativeemphasis.
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But related styles of divinity diverge along the cracks opened by points upon whichrelativeemphasisis placed.
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For the richer countries, thisrelativeemphasisis reversed.
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Without explicit provision for party confrontation on different positions within each issue, the criticism runs, the coding simply measures therelativeemphasisthat parties put on the issue.
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Some keywords are virtual constants of historical discourse, such as ' continuity ' and ' change ', although therelativeemphasisthat historians place on them can fluctuate with circumstances and fashion.
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Because the frequency of the progressive clearly increases in diachrony, arelativeemphasison the latter half of the nineteenth century is likely to lead to higher normalized frequencies.
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That is in therelativeemphasisthat he gave to what he and many others call human rights, on the one hand, and national sovereignty, on the other hand.
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This indicates that stress-induced changes to apical dendrites increase therelativeemphasisof intra-cortical signals at the expense of extra-cortical signals.
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Readers appreciated relative optimism, moral humanism,relativeemphasison group behavior, and welfare of the society.
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They appreciated relative optimism, moral humanism, andrelativeemphasison collective behavior and the welfare of the society.
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It projects directly to the spinal cord and therefore may play a role in the direct control of behavior, with arelativeemphasison the trunk muscles of the body.
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