| Sounds | tow'n | |
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| Rhymes | acetone ... zone: 126 rhymes with own... | |
| Meaning | The quality of a person's voice. | |
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| Synonym | tone of voice | |
| Narrower | note | A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling |
| roundness, rotundity | The fullness of a tone of voice | |
| undertone | A quiet or hushed tone of voice | |
| Broader | manner of speaking, speech, delivery | Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally |
| Spanish | tono | |
| Catalan | to | |
| Verbs | intonate | speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone |
| Meaning | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages. | |
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| Example | "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" | |
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Broader | pitch | The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration |
| Spanish | tono | |
| Catalan | to | |
| Adjectives | tonic, tonal | employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words |
| Verbs | intonate | speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone |
| tone | vary the pitch of one's speech | |
| Meaning | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound). | |
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| Example | "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" | |
| Synonyms | timbre, timber, quality | |
| Category | music | An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
| Narrower | color, colour, coloration, colouration | The timbre of a musical sound |
| harmonic | Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | |
| nasality | A quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators | |
| plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy | Having the character of a loud deep sound | |
| register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | |
| resonance | The quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | |
| shrillness, stridence, stridency | Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | |
| Broader | sound property | An attribute of sound |
| Spanish | cualidad, timbre | |
| Catalan | qualitat, timbre | |
| Adjectives | tonal | having tonality |
| Verbs | tone | vary the pitch of one's speech |
| Meaning | The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people. | |
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| Example | "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" | |
| Synonyms | spirit, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell | |
| Narrower | Hollywood | A flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry |
| Zeitgeist | The spirit of the time | |
| Broader | atmosphere, ambiance, ambience | A particular environment or surrounding influence |
| Meaning | A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color. | |
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| Synonyms | shade, tint, tincture | |
| Narrower | mellowness | A soft shade of a color |
| richness | A strong deep vividness of hue | |
| undertone, tinge | A pale or subdued color | |
| Broader | color, colour, coloring, colouring | A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
| Spanish | coloración, colorido, matiz, sombra, tinta, tinte, tintura, tonalidad, tono | |
| Catalan | tint, tintura, to, tonalitat | |
| Verbs | tone | change to a color image |
| tone | change the color or tone of | |
| Meaning | A steady sound without overtones. | |
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| Example | "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" | |
| Synonym | pure tone | |
| Narrower | harmonic | A tone that is a component of a complex sound |
| Broader | sound, auditory sensation | The subjective sensation of hearing something |
| Spanish | tono | |
| Catalan | to | |
| Adjectives | tonal | having tonality |
| Meaning | The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli. | |
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| Synonyms | tonicity, tonus | |
| Category | muscle, muscular tissue | animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells |
| Narrower | catatonia | extreme / extreme tonus |
| hypertonia, hypertonus, hypertonicity | (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | |
| hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity | (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | |
| muscular tonus, muscle tone | normal tonicity of the muscles | |
| myotonia | abnormally long muscular contractions | |
| Broader | tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness | The physical condition of being stretched or strained |
| Opposite | atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia | lack of normal muscular tension or tonus |
| Spanish | hipertónico, tonicidad, tono | |
| Catalan | to, tonicitat | |
| Adjectives | tonic | of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue |
| Verbs | tone | give a healthy elasticity to |
| Meaning | A musical interval of two semitones. | |
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| Synonyms | whole tone, step, whole step | |
| Broader | interval, musical interval | The difference in pitch between two notes |
| Spanish | escala completa, escala, tono completo, tono | |
| Catalan | to | |
| Adjectives | isotonic | relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale |
| Meaning | The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author. | |
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| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Meaning | Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | chant, intone | |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
| Spanish | entonar | |
| Catalan | entonar | |
| Meaning | Vary the pitch of one's speech. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | inflect, modulate | |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
| Spanish | modular | |
| Catalan | modular | |
| Nouns | tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
| tone | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages | |
| Meaning | change the color or tone of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "tone a negative" | |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color | change color, often in an undesired manner |
| Nouns | tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
| toner | a black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image | |
| toner | a solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print | |
| Meaning | change to a color image. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "tone a photographic image" | |
| Broader | color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in | add color to |
| Spanish | colorear | |
| Catalan | acolorir, colorar | |
| Nouns | tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
| toner | a solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print | |
| Meaning | Give a healthy elasticity to. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Let's tone our muscles" | |
| Synonyms | tone up, strengthen | |
| Broader | exercise, work out | Do physical exercise |
| Spanish | desentumecer, distender, estirarse, estirar, fortalecer, hacer ejercicio, tonificar | |
| Catalan | desentumir, distendre, estirar-se, estirar | |
| Nouns | tone | the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli |
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