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noun : TONES
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" ;
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2. (
) (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" ;
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5. (
) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" ;
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6. (
) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" ;
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8. (
) the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" ;
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9. (
) a musical interval of two semitones ;
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10. (
) 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 gathered that I had outstayed my welcome" ;
verb : TONES
Source:WordNet 3.1
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3. (
) change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" ;
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4. (
) change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" ;
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5. (
) give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" ;
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