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Defenition of the word tone

    • Defenition of the word tone

      • a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
      • 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"
      • the general atmosphere of a place or situation; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
      • 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"
      • (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
      • 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"
      • change to a color image; of photography
      • change the color or tone of
      • a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
      • the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
      • give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"
      • a musical interval of two semitones
      • the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"
      • (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"
      • 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 gathe
      • the quality of a person''s voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
      • 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"
      • give a healthy elasticity to; "Let''s tone our muscles"
      • change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"
      • change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"
      • of one''s speech, varying the pitch
      • utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
      • a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
      • (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
      • (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
      • the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
      • a steady sound without overtones
      • a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
      • the quality of a person's voice
      • the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
      • the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
      • give a healthy elasticity to
      • change to a color image
      • vary the pitch of one's speech
      • utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

    Synonyms for the word tone

      • feel
      • feeling
      • flavor
      • look
      • musical note
      • note
      • pure tone
      • quality
      • shade
      • smell
      • spirit
      • step
      • strengthen
      • timber
      • timbre
      • tincture
      • tint
      • tone of voice
      • tone up
      • tonicity
      • tonus
      • whole step
      • whole tone

    Meronymys for the word tone

      • musical scale
      • scale

    Hyponyms for the word tone

      • acciaccatura
      • appoggiatura
      • blue note
      • catatonia
      • chord
      • color
      • coloration
      • colour
      • colouration
      • crotchet
      • demisemiquaver
      • dominant
      • eighth note
      • fullness
      • grace note
      • half note
      • harmonic
      • harshness
      • hemidemisemiquaver
      • Hollywood
      • hypertonia
      • hypertonicity
      • hypertonus
      • hypotonia
      • hypotonicity
      • hypotonus
      • keynote
      • leading tone
      • mediant
      • mellowness
      • middle C
      • minim
      • monotone
      • muscle tone
      • muscular tonus
      • myotonia
      • nasality
      • note
      • passing note
      • passing tone
      • pedal
      • pedal point
      • plangency
      • quarter note
      • quaver
      • register
      • resonance
      • reverberance
      • richness
      • ringing
      • rotundity
      • roughness
      • roundness
      • semibreve
      • semiquaver
      • shake
      • shrillness
      • sixteenth note
      • sixty-fourth note
      • sonority
      • sonorousness
      • stridence
      • stridency
      • subdominant
      • submediant
      • subtonic
      • supertonic
      • thirty-second note
      • tinge
      • tonic
      • trill
      • undertone
      • vibrancy
      • whole note
      • Zeitgeist

    Hypernyms for the word tone

      • ambiance
      • ambience
      • atmosphere
      • auditory sensation
      • color
      • color in
      • coloring
      • colorise
      • colorize
      • colour
      • colour in
      • colouring
      • colourise
      • colourize
      • delivery
      • discolor
      • discolour
      • exercise
      • interval
      • manner of speaking
      • mouth
      • musical interval
      • musical notation
      • pitch
      • quality
      • sound
      • sound property
      • speak
      • speech
      • talk
      • tautness
      • tenseness
      • tension
      • tensity
      • utter
      • verbalise
      • verbalize
      • work out

    Antonyms for the word tone

      • amyotonia
      • atonia
      • atonicity
      • atony

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