tone

See also: Tone, Töne, tonę, Țone, and -töne

tone - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: tōn, IPA: /təʊn/
  • (US) enPR: tōn, IPA: /toʊn/

Noun

tone (plural tones)

  1. (music) A specific pitch.
  2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  5. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  6. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
    • Children often read with a tone.
  7. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  8. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
  9. The shade or quality of a colour.
  10. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
    • This picture has tone.
  11. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
  12. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  13. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  14. (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
  15. (figuratively)
    1. The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
      • Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
    2. (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.

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Derived terms

Translations

  • Basque: tonu
  • Bulgarian: цяла нота (cjala nota)
  • Chinese:
    • Cantonese: 全音 (cyun4 jam1)
    • Mandarin: 全音 (zh) (quányīn)
  • Czech: tón (cs) m
  • Dutch: hele toon
  • Finnish: sävel (fi), kokosävel
  • French: ton (fr) m
  • Galician: ton (gl) m
  • Hebrew: טוֹן (he) m (ton)
  • Irish: ton m
  • Lithuanian: tonas m
  • Maori: waetahi
  • Portuguese: tom (pt) m
  • Russian: тон (ru) m (ton)
  • Spanish: tono (es) m
  • Swedish: helton (sv) c
  • Vietnamese: nốt (vi)
  • German: Ton (de) m
  • Malagasy: feo (mg)
  • Armenian: գուներանգ (hy) (gunerang)
  • Bulgarian: тоналност (bg) f (tonalnost)
  • Catalan: to (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Danish: farvetone, nuance
  • Dutch: toon (nl) m
  • Finnish: sävy (fi), väri (fi)
  • German: Farbton (de) m
  • Irish: ton m
  • Latvian: tonis m
  • Lithuanian: tonas, atspalvis (lt) m
  • Malay: tona
  • Persian: تن (fa) (ton)
  • Polish: odcień (pl) m
  • Portuguese: tom (pt) m
  • Russian: тон (ru) m (ton), отте́нок (ru) m (otténok)
  • Spanish: tono (es) m
  • Swedish: ton (sv) c, nyans (sv) c
  • Vietnamese: sắc (vi)

Verb

tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)

  1. (transitive) to give a particular tone to
  2. (transitive) to change the colour of
  3. (transitive) to make (something) firmer
  4. (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

  • Bulgarian: тонирам (toniram)
  • Danish: tone
  • Finnish: sävyttää (fi)
  • Swedish: tona (sv)

Pronoun

tone

  1. (now dialectal) the one (of two)

Anagrams

tone - Afrikaans

Noun

tone

  1. plural of toon

tone - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /toːnə/, [ˈtˢoːnə]

Noun

tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)

  1. tone
  2. note

Declension

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tone tonen toner tonerne
genitive tones tonens toners tonernes

Verb

tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)

  1. to sound
  2. to tone
  3. to tint

tone - Dutch

Verb

tone

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen

Anagrams

tone - Latin

Noun

tone

  1. vocative singular of tonus

tone - Middle English

Pronoun

tone

  1. the one (of two)

tone - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)

  1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

Anagrams

tone - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /²tuːnə/

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural tonar, definite plural tonane)

  1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

tone - Swahili

Noun

tone (ma class, plural matone)

  1. drop

tone - Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈto.ne/
  • Hyphenation: to‧ne

Noun

tone

  1. ton

Alternative forms

Meaning and Definition of tone
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