EMPHASIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emphasizing mean? 

• EMPHASIZING (noun)
  The noun EMPHASIZING has 1 sense:

1. the act of giving special importance or significance to something

  Familiarity information: EMPHASIZING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPHASIZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of giving special importance or significance to something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

accenting; accentuation; emphasizing

Hypernyms ("emphasizing" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Derivation:

emphasize (to stress, single out as important)

emphasize (give extra weight to (a communication))

 Context examples 

Again, I listen to Miss Murdstone mumbling the responses, and emphasizing all the dread words with a cruel relish.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Later, at the piano, she played for him, and at him, aggressively, with the vague intent of emphasizing the impassableness of the gulf that separated them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Similar morphological alterations and modulation of gene expression are initiated by the binding of growth factors to their respective receptors, emphasizing the considerable crosstalk between adhesion- and growth factor-mediated signaling.

(Focal Adhesion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Modern society, with its control of light, omnipresent technology and countless competing interests for time, along with the zeitgeist de-emphasizing sleep's importance, has resulted in the widespread deprioritization of sleep.

(Chronic Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Immune System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

While the effects of volcanic heat on the Antarctic ice sheets is an active topic of research, this study provides the first geochemical evidence of a contemporary volcanic heat source, emphasizing the need to detect and understand volcanism, including in models of ice-sheet behavior.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

(i) the systematic study of clinical and basic science and its application for the reduction of pain and suffering; (ii) the blending of tools, techniques and principles taken from the discrete healing art disciplines and reformulated as a holistic application for the reduction of pain and suffering; and (iii) a newly emerging discipline emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach with a goal of reduction of pain and suffering.

(Pain Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

You are very much to blame, sir, said Mr. Spenlow, walking to and fro upon the hearth-rug, and emphasizing what he said with his whole body instead of his head, on account of the stiffness of his cravat and spine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)