The difference between Emphasis and Stress
When used as nouns, emphasis means special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important, whereas stress means a physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
Stress is also verb with the meaning: to apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
check bellow for the other definitions of Emphasis and Stress
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Emphasis as a noun:
Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
Examples:
"He paused for emphasis before saying who had won."
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Emphasis as a noun:
Special attention or prominence given to something.
Examples:
"Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district."
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Emphasis as a noun:
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
Examples:
"He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech."
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Emphasis as a noun (typography):
Related to bold.
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Emphasis as a noun (phonology):
The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants
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Stress as a noun (biology):
A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
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Stress as a noun (biology):
Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
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Stress as a noun (countable, physics):
The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
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Stress as a noun (countable, physics):
Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
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Stress as a noun (uncountable):
Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
Examples:
"Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately."
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Stress as a noun (uncountable, phonetics):
The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
Examples:
"Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second."
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Stress as a noun (uncountable):
Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
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Stress as a noun (uncountable):
Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
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Stress as a noun:
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Stress as a noun (Scotland, legal):
distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
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Stress as a verb:
To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
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Stress as a verb:
To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
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Stress as a verb (informal):
To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
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Stress as a verb:
To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
Examples:
"“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second."
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Stress as a verb:
To emphasise (words in speaking).
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Stress as a verb:
To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
Examples:
"I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence."