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tone
English
- 🔊 (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 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”
- 🔊 a steady sound without overtones“they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies”
- 🔊 a musical interval of two semitones
- 🔊 the quality of a person's voice“he began in a conversational tone”
- 🔊 the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people“the feel of the city excited him”
- 🔊 a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound“the singer held the note too long”
- 🔊 the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli“the doctor tested my tonicity”
- 🔊 a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color“after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted”
- 🔊 (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)“the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely”
- 🔊 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”
Spanish
- 🔊 sonido tone
- 🔊 tono tone
- 🔊 tonificar to tone, tone up