DICTOMETER

TONES

(tone, articulación, tonalidad, tono, artikulasjon, toneart)

1. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   • Tone of voice
   Definitions:
   • the quality of a person's voice
   Examples:
   • He began in a conversational tone
   • He spoke in a nervous tone of voice
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
   Examples:
   • The Beijing dialect uses four tones
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Timbre
   • Timber
   • Quality
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
   Examples:
   • The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
   • The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Spirit
   • Tone
   • Feel
   • Feeling
   • Flavor
   • Flavour
   • Look
   • Smell
   Definitions:
   • the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
   Examples:
   • The feel of the city excited him
   • A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
   • It had the smell of treason
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Shade
   • Tint
   • Tincture
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
   Examples:
   • After several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Note
   • Musical note
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
   Examples:
   • The singer held the note too long
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   • Pure tone
   Definitions:
   • a steady sound without overtones
   Examples:
   • They tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Tonicity
   • Tonus
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
   Examples:
   • The doctor tested my tonicity
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   • Whole tone
   • Step
   • Whole step
   Definitions:
   • a musical interval of two semitones
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Tone
    Definitions:
    • the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
    Examples:
    • 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
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   • Chant
   • Intone
   Definitions:
   • utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
   Examples:
   • The students chanted the same slogan over and over again
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   • Inflect
   • Modulate
   Definitions:
   • vary the pitch of one's speech
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • change the color or tone of
   Examples:
   • Tone a negative
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   Definitions:
   • change to a color image
   Examples:
   • Tone a photographic image
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Tone
   • Tone up
   • Strengthen
   Definitions:
   • give a healthy elasticity to
   Examples:
   • Let's tone our muscles