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Noun | 1. | ![]() manner of speaking, delivery, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" note - a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice" roundness, rotundity - the fullness of a tone of voice; "there is a musky roundness to his wordiness" undertone - a quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones" |
2. | ![]() pitch - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration linguistics - the scientific study of language | |
3. | ![]() sound property - an attribute of sound harmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities coloration, colouration, color, colour - the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | |
4. | ![]() ambiance, ambience, atmosphere - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" Hollywood - a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood" Zeitgeist - the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation | |
5. | ![]() color, coloring, colouring, colour - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" mellowness - a soft shade of a color; "a mellowness of light and shade not attainable in marble" richness - a strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room" | |
6. | ![]() musical notation - (music) notation used by musicians musical scale, scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) supertonic - (music) the second note of a diatonic scale mediant - (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant subdominant - (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale dominant - (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale submediant - (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) leading tone, subtonic - (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale pedal, pedal point - a sustained bass note middle C - the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz chord - a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together passing note, passing tone - a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes semibreve, whole note - a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) quarter note, crotchet - a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note eighth note, quaver - a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note semiquaver, sixteenth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note demisemiquaver, thirty-second note - a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note blue note - a flattened third or seventh monotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | |
7. | tone - a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" auditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" harmonic - a tone that is a component of a complex sound | |
8. | ![]() muscular tissue, muscle - animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells tautness, tenseness, tensity, tension - the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" catatonia - extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia muscle tone, muscular tonus - normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone" myotonia - abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction | |
9. | tone - a musical interval of two semitones musical interval, interval - the difference in pitch between two notes | |
10. | 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" quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare | |
Verb | 1. | tone - utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" |
2. | tone - vary the pitch of one's speech | |
3. | tone - change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" | |
4. | tone - change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" | |
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