| tone | | |
| tone, tone of voice | (n.) | the quality of a person's voice.; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" |
| tone | (n.) | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages.; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" |
| quality, timber, timbre, tone | (n.) | (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" |
| feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone | (n.) | 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, tincture, tint, tone | (n.) | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color.; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" |
| musical note, note, tone | (n.) | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.; "the singer held the note too long" |
| pure tone, tone | (n.) | a steady sound without overtones.; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" |
| tone, tonicity, tonus | (n.) | the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli.; "the doctor tested my tonicity" |
| step, tone, whole step, whole tone | (n.) | a musical interval of two semitones. |
| tone | (n.) | 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" |
| chant, intone, tone | (v.) | utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically.; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" |
| inflect, modulate, tone | (v.) | vary the pitch of one's speech. |
| tone | (v.) | change the color or tone of.; "tone a negative" |
| tone | (v.) | change to a color image.; "tone a photographic image" |
| strengthen, tone, tone up | (v.) | give a healthy elasticity to.; "Let's tone our muscles" |
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