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In American English, the usage of "this/that" has become common in intensive form. [2] The usage of "this/that" as intensifiers can be compared to the intensifier "so", since they all belong in the booster category of intensifiers, that is, intensifiers used to describe a high claim of intensity. [2]
Intensification may refer to: . Image intensification by image intensifier; Rapid intensification, a meteorological condition that occurs when a tropical cyclone intensifies dramatically in a short period of time
In linguistics, an intensifier (abbreviated INT) is a lexical category (but not a traditional part of speech) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional meaning of a clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the lexical item it modifies.
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1] [2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.
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When caused by a combination of various intensified properties, it is called stress accent or dynamic accent; English uses what is called variable stress accent. Since stress can be realised through a wide range of phonetic properties, such as loudness, vowel length, and pitch (which are also used for other linguistic functions), it is ...
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump’s inaugural address included an announcement that the U.S. federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female.
For electron beams, intensity is the probability of electrons reaching some particular position on a detector (e.g. a charge-coupled device [2]) which is used to produce images that are interpreted in terms of both microstructure of inorganic or biological materials, as well as atomic scale structure. [3]