(emphases)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Emphasis is special or extra importance that is given to an activity or to a part or aspect of something.
Too much ~ is placed on research...
Grant puts a special ~ on weather in his paintings.
= stress
N-VAR: oft N on n
2.
Emphasis is extra force that you put on a syllable, word, or phrase when you are speaking in order to make it seem more important.
‘I might have know it!’ Miss Burnett said with ~...
The ~ is on the first syllable of the last word.
N-VAR