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tone
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Noun
  • 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
  • a musical interval of two semitones
  • the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
    • the doctor tested my tonicity
  • a steady sound without overtones
    • they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies
  • 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 another color
    • after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted
  • 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
  • (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
  • (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 a person's voice
    • he began in a conversational tone
    • he spoke in a nervous tone of voice
Verb
  • 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
  • vary the pitch of one's speech
  • utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
    • The students chanted the same slogan over and over again
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