0 present participle of stress --
1 to give emphasis or special importance to something: --
I'd just like to stress the importance of neatness and politeness in this job.
[ + (that) ] He is careful to stress (that) the laboratory's safety standards are the best in the country.
2 to pronounce a word or syllable with greater force than other words in the same sentence or other syllables in the same word, or to play a musical note with greater force than others in a group: --
Stressing the first and removing the stress from the second produces a stressless foot.
Maps can be of different kinds, with the main distinction made between topological representations, stressing connectivity, and full metric representations.
It is worth stressing that we are arguing for only a conditional claim here.
We conclude by stressing the social and theoretical importance of including clearly-identified illiterate adults in our growing database on second language acquisition research.
This demand for a competitive advantage could not be met simply by stressing the party label - for that was common to all co-partisans.
She differed, however, in stressing that agraristas, the beneficiaries of revolutionary agrarian reform, also came from the peasantry.
This has the advantage of stressing the dynamic nature of identities in later life.
It is worth stressing, as they do, that the policy implications of the model, if it works, are neither simple, nor clear, nor straightforward.
