tonetoʊn
tone (v)
- present
- tones
- past
- toned
- past participle
- toned
- present participle
- toning
tone
English Definitions:
tone, tone of voice (noun)
the quality of a person's voice
"he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
tone (noun)
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
"the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
timbre, timber, quality, tone (noun)
(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"
spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell (noun)
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"
shade, tint, tincture, tone (noun)
a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
"after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
note, musical note, tone (noun)
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
"the singer held the note too long"
tone, pure tone (noun)
a steady sound without overtones
"they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
tonicity, tonus, tone (noun)
the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
"the doctor tested my tonicity"
tone, whole tone, step, whole step (noun)
a musical interval of two semitones
tone (verb)
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"
tone, chant, intone (verb)
utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
"The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
tone, inflect, modulate (verb)
vary the pitch of one's speech
tone (verb)
change the color or tone of
"tone a negative"
tone (verb)
change to a color image
"tone a photographic image"
tone, tone up, strengthen (verb)
give a healthy elasticity to
"Let's tone our muscles"
Tone
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information, and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels. Such tonal phonemes are sometimes called tonemes, where each toneme is a lexically distinct variant of the same phoneme, that is phonetically distinguished from other tonemes only by the tone of the vowel. Tonal languages are extremely common in Africa, East Asia, and Central America, but rare elsewhere in Asia and in Europe; as many as seventy percent of world languages may be tonal. In many tonal African languages, such as most Bantu languages, tones are distinguished by their pitch level relative to each other, known as a register tone system. In multisyllable words, a single tone may be carried by the entire word, rather than a different tone on each syllable. Often grammatical information, such as past versus present, "I" versus "you", or positive versus negative, is conveyed solely by tone.
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