Tone ¹

Definition: 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.

Tone ²

Definition: Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

Tone ³

Definition: A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

Tone ⁴

Definition: A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

Tone ⁵

Definition: The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

Tone ⁶

Definition: The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

Tone ⁷

Definition: A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

Tone ⁸

Definition: That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tone ⁹

Definition: Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

Tone ¹⁰

Definition: State of mind; temper; mood.

Tone ¹¹

Definition: Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

Tone ¹²

Definition: General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

Tone ¹³

Definition: The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

Tone ¹⁴

Definition: To utter with an affected tone.

Tone ¹⁵

Definition: To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

Tone ¹⁶

Definition: To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

tone ¹⁷

Definition: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"

tone ¹⁸

Definition: (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

tone ¹⁹

Definition: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

tone ²⁰

Definition: the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathe

tone ²¹

Definition: a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"

tone ²²

Definition: a musical interval of two semitones

tone ²³

Definition: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"

tone ²⁴

Definition: the quality of a person''s voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"

tone ²⁵

Definition: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"

tone ²⁶

Definition: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"

tone ²⁷

Definition: give a healthy elasticity to; "Let''s tone our muscles"

tone ²⁸

Definition: change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"

tone ²⁹

Definition: change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"

tone ³⁰

Definition: of one''s speech, varying the pitch

tone ³¹

Definition: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"