Definition of tones Tones
/towˈnz/ - [townz] -
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Wiktionary 
- tones (Noun)
Plural of tone.
Part of speech
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| tone - (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" | ||
| pitch the action or manner of throwing something; "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor" | ||
| linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature | ||
| tone - the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" | ||
| tone of voice | ||
| manner of speaking, delivery, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" | ||
| note a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm" | ||
| rotundity, roundness the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular | ||
| tone - a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" | ||
| pure tone | ||
| auditory sensation, sound the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music" | ||
| tone - 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 - a musical interval of two semitones | ||
| whole tone, step, whole step | ||
| tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" | ||
| note, musical note | ||
| musical notation (music) notation used by musicians | ||
| musical scale, scale a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | ||
| keynote, tonic a fundamental or central idea | ||
| supertonic (music) the second note of a diatonic scale | ||
| mediant (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | ||
| subdominant (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale | ||
| dominant (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | ||
| submediant (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | ||
| leading tone, subtonic (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | ||
| pedal point, pedal a sustained bass note | ||
| trill, shake a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | ||
| middle c the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz | ||
| chord a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together | ||
| passing note, passing tone a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes | ||
| semibreve, whole note a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | ||
| half note, minim a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | ||
| quarter note, crotchet a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | ||
| eighth note, quaver a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | ||
| semiquaver, sixteenth note a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | ||
| demisemiquaver, thirty-second note a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | ||
| hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | ||
| acciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | ||
| blue note a flattened third or seventh | ||
| tone - the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" | ||
| tonicity, tonus | ||
| amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | ||
| tensity, tautness, tenseness, tension the action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the belt in the pulleys" | ||
| muscular tissue, muscle authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way); "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign" | ||
| catatonia extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | ||
| muscle tone, muscular tonus normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone" | ||
| myotonia abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction | ||
| hypertonia, hypertonus, hypertonicity (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | ||
| tone - (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" | ||
| timbre, timber, quality | ||
| sound property an attribute of sound | ||
| music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" | ||
| harmonic any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | ||
| resonance the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | ||
| coloration, colouration, color, colour choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | ||
| nasality a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators | ||
| plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | ||
| stridence, stridency, shrillness having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | ||
| 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 clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" | ||
| spirit, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell | ||
| ambiance, ambience, atmosphere the atmosphere of an environment | ||
| hollywood the film industry of the United States | ||
| tone - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" | ||
| shade, tint, tincture | ||
| coloring, colouring, color, colour the act or process of changing the color of something | ||
| mellowness geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana | ||
| richness a strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room" | ||
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| tone - vary the pitch of one's speech | ||
| inflect, modulate | ||
| mouth, utter, verbalise, verbalize, speak, talk articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" | ||
| tone - change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" | ||
| discolour, discolor, color, colour change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored" | ||
| tone - change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" | ||
| color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, color, colour add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" | ||
| tone - utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" | ||
| chant, intone | ||
| mouth, utter, verbalise, verbalize, speak, talk articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" | ||
| tone - give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" | ||
| tone up, strengthen | ||
| exercise, work out do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day" | ||
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Wiktionary
- tone (Noun)
A specific pitch. - tone (Noun)
In the diatonic scale An interval of a major second . - tone (Noun)
In a Gregorian chant A recitational melody. - tone (Noun)
The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice. - tone (Noun)
General character, mood, or trend. - tone (Noun)
The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese. - tone (Noun)
The manner in which speech or writing is expressed. - tone (Noun)
The shade or quality of a colour. - tone (Noun)
The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus. - tone (Noun)
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. - tone (Noun)
Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli. - tone (Verb)
To give a particular tone to. - tone (Verb)
To change the colour of. - tone (Verb)
To make something firmer. - tone (Verb)
To harmonize, especially in colour.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tone (n.)
Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone. - tone (n.)
Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. - tone (n.)
A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone. - tone (n.)
A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones. - tone (n.)
The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone. - tone (n.)
The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone. - tone (n.)
A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones. - tone (n.)
That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. - tone (n.)
Tonicity; as, arterial tone. - tone (n.)
State of mind; temper; mood. - tone (n.)
Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory. - tone (n.)
General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners. - tone (n.)
The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone. - tone (v. t.)
To utter with an affected tone. - tone (v. t.)
To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t. - tone (v. t.)
To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tone
tōn, n. the character of a sound: quality of the voice: harmony of the colours of a painting, also its characteristic or prevailing effect as due to the management of chiaroscuro and to the effect of light upon the quality of colour: (phot.) the shade or colour of a finished positive picture: (gram.) syllabic stress, special accent given to a syllable: character or style: state of mind: mood: a healthy state of the body.—v.t. to utter with an affected tone: to intone, to utter in a drawling way: to give tone or quality to, in respect either of sound or colour: to alter or modify the colour.—adj. Tō′nal.—n. Tonal′ity.—adjs. Toned, having a tone (in compounds); Tone′less.—Tone down, to give a lower tone to, to moderate, to soften, to harmonise the colours of as to light and shade, as a painting. [L. tonus—Gr. tonos, a sound—teinō, to stretch.]
