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tone

(t/oU/n )

noun (n)

the quality of a person's voice(noun.communication)

Example:
He began in a conversational tone.
He spoke in a nervous tone of voice.

Synonym:
tone of voice

source: wordnet30
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages(noun.attribute)

Example:
The Beijing dialect uses four tones.

source: wordnet30
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)(noun.attribute)

Example:
The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet.

Synonym:
quality, timber, timbre

source: wordnet30
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people(noun.state)

Example:
A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting.

Synonym:
feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit

source: wordnet30
a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color(noun.attribute)

Synonym:
shade, tincture, tint

source: wordnet30
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound(noun.communication)

Synonym:
musical note, note

source: wordnet30
a steady sound without overtones(noun.cognition)

Example:
They tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies.

Synonym:
pure tone

source: wordnet30
the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli(noun.state)

Synonym:
tonicity, tonus
Antonym:
amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony

source: wordnet30
a musical interval of two semitones(noun.communication)

Synonym:
step, whole step, whole tone

source: wordnet30
the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author(noun.attribute)

Example:
The general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw.
From the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome.

source: wordnet30
Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.(noun)

source: webster1913
Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.(noun)

source: webster1913

verb (v)

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically(verb.communication)

Synonym:
chant, intone

source: wordnet30
vary the pitch of one's speech(verb.communication)

Synonym:
inflect, modulate

source: wordnet30
change the color or tone of(verb.change)

Example:
Tone a negative.

source: wordnet30
change to a color image(verb.change)

Example:
Tone a photographic image.

source: wordnet30
give a healthy elasticity to(verb.body)

Example:
Let's tone our muscles.

Synonym:
strengthen, tone up

source: wordnet30
To utter with an affected tone.(verb)

source: webster1913

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