Words similar to unstressed
Example sentences for: unstressed
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If the fabric is defect free, the marker efficient, the lay flat and unstressed, then everything else is up to the cutter.
The remaining 479 (45%) cDNAs correspond to genes transcribed at moderate rate (7-200 ESTs) in unstressed plants.
It may not come as much of a revelation to Professor Honey to learn that even I, a native speaker of AE, often have to ask whether an American speaker meant to say can or can't when the word receives any emphasis; but in normal, unstressed speech the former is usually reduced to `k'n' while the latter is of longer duration, even, than that of the noun can . To be sure, the RP practice of rhyming can with man and the a of can't with that of father does neaten things up a bit.
Simpler spreading machines have no on-board computer, but they do unroll the bolt of cloth “unstressed” and properly aligned with the edge of the ply below.
If you have heard the name of Canada's prime minister (Jean Chrétien) pronounced correctly, or if you are sufficiently acquainted with French to know this fairly common name (which means Christian), you do not need to know that an acute accent is usually put over an e to indicate that it is a long e in an unstressed syllable.