tone
Meaning of tone
- A specific pitch.
- (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- General character, mood, or trend.
Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
- The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
Children often read with a tone.
- The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- State of mind; temper; mood.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
This picture has tone.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- 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.
- Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- A gun
- To give a particular tone to
- To change the colour of
- To make (something) firmer
- To harmonize, especially in colour
- To utter with an affected tone.
pronoun
The one (of two)
Information about tone
- The plural form of tone is: tones.
- Languages in which tone is used:
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Hyphenation of tone
tone
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- tone is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
tone synonyms
Meaning timbre:
Meaning spirit:
spirit, feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell
Meaning shade:
Meaning note:
Meaning tonicity:
Meaning whole tone:
Meaning chant:
Meaning inflect:
Meaning tone up:
Meaning :
color, colour, dye, paint, harmonize, firm
Anagrams of tone
ento, Eton, eton, Neto, note, Teno
Words that rhyme with tone
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