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nouna quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
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nounthe elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
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"a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"nounthe general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on peopletype of:
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nouna notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
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"Let's tone our muscles"verbgive a healthy elasticity to
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"the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"noun(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)type of:
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nouna musical interval of two semitones
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"he began in a conversational tone" "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"nounthe quality of a person's voice
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verbvary the pitch of one's speech
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verbutter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
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"they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"nouna steady sound without overtones
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"tone a negative"verbchange the color or tone of
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"tone a photographic image"verbchange to a color image
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"the Beijing dialect uses four tones"noun(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languagestype of:
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"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"nounthe quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the authortype of:
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look talk feel speak feeling sound step mouth smell spirit color note shake ringing speech hollywood quality delivery exercise atmosphere colour register pitch tension shade flavor utter tonic strengthen chant dominant pedal chord timber interval flavour coloring resonance ambience richness harmonic ambiance tint colouring toner keynote tinge monotone coloration zeitgeist trill timbre roundness colouration tonal modulate catatonia quaver verbalize tautness crotchet undertone vibrancy tincture mellowness sonority hypotonia subdominant semibreve inflect colorize tenseness tonus minim semiquaver intone discolour tonicity tensity hypertonicity muscular tonus muscle tone hypotonus hypotonicity hypertonus hypertonia myotonia musical note musical notation blue note passing note appoggiatura acciaccatura sixty-fourth note leading tone sixteenth note mediant middle c quarter note pedal point passing tone whole note demisemiquaver eighth note grace note half note hemidemisemiquaver thirty-second note supertonic subtonic submediant tone up work out sound property shrillness reverberance sonorousness nasality stridence stridency plangency whole step whole tone musical interval tone of voice manner of speaking rotundity intonate verbalise pure tone auditory sensation discolor colourize color in colorise colour in colourise