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Noun tone has 10 senses
- tone, tone of voice - the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
--1 is a kind of manner of speaking, speech, delivery
--1 has particulars: note; undertone
- tone - (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
--2 is a kind of pitch
- timbre, timber, quality, tone - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
--3 is a kind of sound property
--3 has particulars: | | resonance; color, colour, coloration, colouration; harshness, roughness; fullness, mellowness, richness; nasality; plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy; shrillness, stridence, stridency; register |
- spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell - the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
--4 is a kind of atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
--4 has particulars: Hollywood; Zeitgeist
- shade, tint, tincture, tone - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
--5 is a kind of color, colour, coloring, colouring
--5 has particulars: undertone, tinge
- note, musical note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
--6 is a kind of musical notation
--6 is a member of scale, musical scale
--6 has particulars: | | tonic, keynote; supertonic; mediant; subdominant; dominant; submediant; subtonic, leading tone; pedal point, pedal; trill, shake; middle C; chord; passing note, passing tone; whole note, semibreve; half note, minim; quarter note, crotchet; eighth note, quaver; sixteenth note, semiquaver; thirty-second note, demisemiquaver; sixty-fourth note, hemidemisemiquaver; grace note, appoggiatura, acciaccatura; blue note; monotone |
- tone, pure tone - a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
--7 is a kind of sound, auditory sensation
--7 has particulars: harmonic
- tonicity, tonus, tone - the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"
--8 is a kind of tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
--8 has particulars:
- tone, whole tone, step, whole step - a musical interval of two semitones
--9 is a kind of interval, musical interval
- tone - the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "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"
--10 is a kind of quality
Verb tone has 5 senses
- tone, chant, intone - utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
--1 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
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- tone, inflect, modulate - of one's speech, varying the pitch
--2 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
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- tone - change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"
--3 is one way to discolor, discolour, colour, color
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- tone - change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"
--4 is one way to color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
Sample sentences:
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- tone, tone up, strengthen - give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"
--5 is one way to exercise, work out
Sample sentence:
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