| tone | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. tone, tone of voice | the quality of a person's voice.; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous 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 tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling.; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice" |
| ~ roundness, rotundity | the fullness of a tone of voice.; "there is a musky roundness to his wordiness" |
| ~ undertone | a quiet or hushed tone of voice.; "spoke in undertones" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. 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 property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration. |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. quality, timber, timbre, 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" |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| ~ 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 | the timbre of a musical sound.; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" |
| ~ nasality | a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators. |
| ~ plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, resonance, ringing | 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. |
| ~ register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments. |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| n. (state) | 4. feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, 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" |
| ~ ambiance, ambience, atmosphere | a particular environment or surrounding influence.; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" |
| ~ hollywood | a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry.; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood" |
| ~ zeitgeist | the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. shade, tincture, tint, 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" |
| ~ color, coloring, colouring, colour | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" |
| ~ mellowness | a soft shade of a color.; "a mellowness of light and shade not attainable in marble" |
| ~ richness | a strong deep vividness of hue.; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room" |
| ~ tinge, undertone | a pale or subdued color. |
| n. (communication) | 6. musical note, note, tone | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.; "the singer held the note too long" |
| ~ musical notation | (music) notation used by musicians. |
| ~ musical scale, scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave). |
| ~ keynote, tonic | (music) the first note of a diatonic scale. |
| ~ 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, pedal point | 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. |
| ~ monotone | a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts). |
| n. (cognition) | 7. pure tone, tone | a steady sound without overtones.; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" |
| ~ auditory sensation, sound | the subjective sensation of hearing something.; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" |
| ~ harmonic | a tone that is a component of a complex sound. |
| n. (state) | 8. tone, tonicity, tonus | the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli.; "the doctor tested my tonicity" |
| ~ muscular tissue, muscle | animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells. |
| ~ tautness, tenseness, tensity, tension | the physical condition of being stretched or strained.; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity | (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic. |
| n. (communication) | 9. step, tone, whole step, whole tone | a musical interval of two semitones. |
| ~ musical interval, interval | the difference in pitch between two notes. |
| n. (attribute) | 10. 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" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| v. (communication) | 11. chant, intone, tone | utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically.; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" |
| ~ mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter | express in speech.; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" |
| v. (communication) | 12. inflect, modulate, tone | vary the pitch of one's speech. |
| ~ mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter | express in speech.; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" |
| v. (change) | 13. tone | change the color or tone of.; "tone a negative" |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
| v. (change) | 14. tone | change to a color image.; "tone a photographic image" |
| ~ color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour | add color to.; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" |
| v. (body) | 15. strengthen, tone, tone up | give a healthy elasticity to.; "Let's tone our muscles" |
| ~ exercise, work out | do physical exercise.; "She works out in the gym every day" |
| tune | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" |
| ~ tucket, fanfare, flourish | (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments.; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare" |
| ~ glissando | a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale. |
| ~ roulade | (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable. |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| ~ leitmotif, leitmotiv | a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas). |
| ~ theme song | a melody that recurs and comes to represent a musical play or movie. |
| ~ signature tune, theme song, signature | a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program. |
| ~ melodic theme, musical theme, theme, idea | (music) melodic subject of a musical composition.; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" |
| ~ part, voice | the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music.; "he tried to sing the tenor part" |
| ~ musical phrase, phrase | a short musical passage. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. tune | the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch.; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune" |
| ~ pitch | the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration. |
| n. (act) | 3. tune | the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency. |
| ~ modification, adjustment, alteration | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment). |
| v. (change) | 4. tune, tune up | adjust for (better) functioning.; "tune the engine" |
| ~ adjust, correct, set | alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" |
| ~ fine-tune, tweak | adjust finely.; "fine-tune the engine" |
| ~ service | make fit for use.; "service my truck"; "the washing machine needs to be serviced" |
| ~ tune in | regulate (a radio or television set) in order to receive a certain station or program. |
| v. (change) | 5. tune, tune up | adjust the pitches of (musical instruments).; "My piano needs to be tuned" |
| ~ adjust, correct, set | alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" |
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