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English noun: tone | |||
| 1. | tone (communication) the quality of a person's voice | ||
| Samples | He began in a conversational tone. He spoke in a nervous tone of voice. | ||
| Synonyms | tone of voice | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | delivery, manner of speaking, speech | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | note, rotundity, roundness, undertone | ||
| 2. | tone (attribute) (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages | ||
| Samples | The Beijing dialect uses four tones. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pitch | ||
| Domain category | linguistics | ||
| 3. | tone (attribute) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | ||
| Samples | The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely. The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet. | ||
| Synonyms | quality, timber, timbre | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sound property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | color, coloration, colour, colouration, harmonic, nasality, plangency, register, resonance, resonance, reverberance, ringing, shrillness, sonority, sonorousness, stridence, stridency, vibrancy | ||
| Domain category | music | ||
| 4. | tone (state) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | ||
| Samples | The feel of the city excited him. A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting. It had the smell of treason. | ||
| Synonyms | feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ambiance, ambience, atmosphere | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Hollywood, Zeitgeist | ||
| 5. | tone (attribute) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | ||
| Samples | After several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted. | ||
| Synonyms | shade, tincture, tint | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | color, coloring, colour, colouring | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | mellowness, richness, tinge, undertone | ||
| 6. | tone (communication) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | ||
| Samples | The singer held the note too long. | ||
| Synonyms | musical note, note | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | musical notation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | acciaccatura, appoggiatura, blue note, chord, crotchet, demisemiquaver, dominant, eighth note, grace note, half note, hemidemisemiquaver, keynote, leading tone, mediant, middle C, minim, monotone, passing note, passing tone, pedal, pedal point, quarter note, quaver, semibreve, semiquaver, shake, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, subdominant, submediant, subtonic, supertonic, thirty-second note, tonic, trill, whole note | ||
| Member meronym | musical scale, scale | ||
| 7. | tone (cognition) a steady sound without overtones | ||
| Samples | They tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies. | ||
| Synonyms | pure tone | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | auditory sensation, sound | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | harmonic | ||
| 8. | tone (state) the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | ||
| Samples | The doctor tested my tonicity. | ||
| Synonyms | tonicity, tonus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | catatonia, hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus, hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotonus, muscle tone, muscular tonus, myotonia | ||
| Domain category | muscle, muscular tissue | ||
| Antonyms | amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony | ||
| 9. | tone (communication) a musical interval of two semitones | ||
| Synonyms | step, whole step, whole tone | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | interval, musical interval | ||
| 10. | tone (attribute) the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
English verb: tone | |||
| 1. | tone (communication) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | ||
| Samples | The students chanted the same slogan over and over again. | ||
| Synonyms | chant, intone | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize | ||
| 2. | tone (communication) vary the pitch of one's speech | ||
| Synonyms | inflect, modulate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize | ||
| 3. | tone (change) change the color or tone of | ||
| Samples | Tone a negative. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | color, colour, discolor, discolour | ||
| 4. | tone (change) change to a color image | ||
| Samples | Tone a photographic image. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize | ||
| 5. | tone (body) give a healthy elasticity to | ||
| Samples | Let's tone our muscles. | ||
| Synonyms | strengthen, tone up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exercise, work out | ||
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