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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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"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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