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English to English noun
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the quality of a person's voice |  | Example: he began in a conversational tone
he spoke in a nervous tone of voice
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(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages | | Example: the Beijing dialect uses four tones
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(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | | Example: the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
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the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | | Example: the feel of the city excited him
a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
it had the smell of treason
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a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | | Example: after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted
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a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | | Example: the singer held the note too long
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a steady sound without overtones | | Example: they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies
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the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | | Example: the doctor tested my tonicity
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a musical interval of two semitones | | source: wordnet30
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the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | | Example: 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
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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. | | source: webster1913
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Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone. | | source: webster1913 verb
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utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | | Example: The students chanted the same slogan over and over again
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vary the pitch of one's speech | | source: wordnet30
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change the color or tone of | | Example: tone a negative
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change to a color image | | Example: tone a photographic image
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give a healthy elasticity to | | Example: Let's tone our muscles
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To utter with an affected tone. | | source: webster1913
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