tone
Noun
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is a type of: delivery, manner of speaking, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orallysubtypes:same as: tone of voice
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referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of languageis a type of: pitch - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
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referred to in: music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manneris a type of: sound property - an attribute of soundsubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: color, coloring, colour, colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflectsubtypes:
- mellowness - a soft shade of a color
- richness - a strong deep vividness of hue
- tinge, undertone - a pale or subdued color
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is a type of: musical notation - (music) notation used by musicianssubtypes:
- 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 -
is a type of: auditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing somethingsubtypes: harmonic - a tone that is a component of a complex soundsame as: pure tone
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referred to in: muscle, muscular tissue - animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cellsis a type of: tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity - the physical condition of being stretched or strainedsubtypes:
- catatonia - extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
- muscle tone, muscular tonus - normal tonicity of the muscles
- myotonia - abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction
- hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus - (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic
- hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotonus - (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic
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is a type of: interval, musical interval - the difference in pitch between two notes
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is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Verb
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same as: strengthen, tone up
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- Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
- Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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- Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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- Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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