tone

Noun
  1. The quality of a person's voice (synset 107096765)
    "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
    is a type of: delivery, manner of speaking, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
    subtypes:
    • note - a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling
    • rotundity, roundness - the fullness of a tone of voice
    • undertone - a quiet or hushed tone of voice
    same as: tone of voice
  2. (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages (synset 104994132)
    "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
    referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    is a type of: pitch - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
  3. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) (synset 104994869)
    "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
    referred to in: music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
    is a type of: sound property - an attribute of sound
    subtypes:
    • harmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
    • resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
    • color, coloration, colour, colouration - the timbre of a musical sound
    • nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
    • plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
    • shrillness, stridence, stridency - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched 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
    same as: quality, timber, timbre
  4. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people (synset 114549784)
    "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
    is a type of: ambiance, ambience, atmosphere - a particular environment or surrounding influence
    subtypes:
    • hollywood - a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry
    • zeitgeist - the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
    same as: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit
  5. A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color (synset 104966407)
    "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
    is a type of: color, coloring, colour, colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
    subtypes:
    same as: shade, tincture, tint
  6. A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound (synset 106878395)
    "the singer held the note too long"
    is a type of: musical notation - (music) notation used by musicians
    subtypes:
    • keynote, tonic - (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
    • supertonic - (music) the second note of a diatonic scale
    • mediant - (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
    • subdominant - (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale
    • dominant - (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
    • submediant - (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic)
    • leading tone, subtonic - (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale
    • pedal, pedal point - a sustained bass note
    • shake, trill - a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
    • middle c - the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz
    • chord - a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
    • passing note, passing tone - a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes
    • semibreve, whole note - a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)
    • half note, minim - a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
    • crotchet, quarter note - a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
    • eighth note, quaver - a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
    • semiquaver, sixteenth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note
    • demisemiquaver, thirty-second note - a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note
    • hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
    • acciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note - an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
    • blue note - a flattened third or seventh
    • monotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
    belongs to: musical scale, scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
    same as: musical note, note
  7. A steady sound without overtones (synset 105727552)
    "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
    is a type of: auditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing something
    subtypes: harmonic - a tone that is a component of a complex sound
    same as: pure tone
  8. The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli (synset 114568274)
    "the doctor tested my tonicity"
    referred to in: muscle, muscular tissue - animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
    is a type of: tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity - the physical condition of being stretched or strained
    subtypes:
    same as: tonicity, tonus
  9. A musical interval of two semitones (synset 106872106)
    is a type of: interval, musical interval - the difference in pitch between two notes
    same as: step, whole step, whole tone
  10. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author (synset 105218719)
    "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"
    is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Verb
  1. Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically (synset 201068797)
    "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
    is a type of: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize - express in speech
    same as: chant, intone
  2. Vary the pitch of one's speech (synset 200984325)
    is a type of: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize - express in speech
    same as: inflect, modulate
  3. Change the color or tone of (synset 200290894)
    "tone a negative"
    is a type of: color, colour, discolor, discolour - change color, often in an undesired manner
  4. Change to a color image (synset 200290736)
    "tone a photographic image"
    is a type of: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize - add color to
  5. Give a healthy elasticity to (synset 200101031)
    "Let's tone our muscles"
    is a type of: exercise, work out - do physical exercise
    same as: strengthen, tone up

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