tone
tone - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: tōn, IPA: /təʊn/
- (US) enPR: tōn, IPA: /toʊn/
Noun
tone (plural tones)
- (music) A specific pitch.
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- (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.
- (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- This picture has tone.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (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.
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
- (figuratively)
- 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.
- (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
Synonyms
- (an interval of a major second): whole tone
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Verb
tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)
- (transitive) to give a particular tone to
- (transitive) to change the colour of
- (transitive) to make (something) firmer
- (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
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Pronoun
tone
- (now dialectal) the one (of two)
Anagrams
tone - Afrikaans
Noun
tone
- plural of toon
tone - Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /toːnə/, [ˈtˢoːnə]
Noun
tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)
Declension
Verb
tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)
tone - Dutch
Verb
tone
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen
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tone - Latin
Noun
tone
- vocative singular of tonus
tone - Middle English
Pronoun
tone
- the one (of two)
tone - Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)
- 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)
- a tone (sound, colour etc.)
Derived terms
tone - Swahili
Noun
tone (ma class, plural matone)
tone - Tokelauan
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈto.ne/
- Hyphenation: to‧ne
Noun
tone