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tone, quality, timbre, timber | [in music] the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | |
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tone, tone up, strengthen | give a healthy elasticity to | |
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tone, modulate, inflect | vary the pitch of one's speech | |
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tone | change to a color image | |
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tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | |
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tone, tonicity, tonus | [in muscle] the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | |
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step, tone, whole tone, whole step | a musical interval of two semitones | |
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chant, intone, tone | utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | |
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tone, pure tone | a steady sound without overtones | |
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tone, tone of voice | the quality of a person's voice | |
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shade, tone, tint, tincture | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | |
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note, tone, musical note | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | |
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tone | change the color or tone of | |
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spirit, feeling, tone, flavor, feel, smell, look, flavour, atmosphere | the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | |
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tone | [in linguistics] a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages |