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Tone
təʊn
- a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength
"they were speaking in hushed tones"
- a modulation of the voice expressing a particular feeling or mood
"a firm tone of voice"
- a musical note or other sound used as a signal on a phone or answering machine
- the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
"my friend and I lowered the tone with our oafish ways"
- an atmosphere of respectability or class
"they don't feel he gives the place tone"
- a basic interval in classical Western music, equal to two semitones and separating, for example, the first and second notes of an ordinary scale (such as C and D, or E and F sharp); a major second
"the B flat clarinet's part is written one tone higher than the pitch required"
- the particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a shade of a colour
"stained glass in vivid tones of red and blue"
- the general effect of colour or of light and shade in a picture
- a slight degree of difference in the intensity of a colour
- (in some languages, such as Chinese) a particular pitch pattern on a syllable used to make semantic distinctions
- (in some languages, such as English) intonation on a word or phrase used to add functional meaning
- the normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle
"a reduction of muscle tone"
- the normal level of activity in a nerve fibre
"vagal tone"
- give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle)
"push-ups help tone your abs"
- give (a monochrome picture) an altered colour in finishing by means of a chemical solution
"it's a good idea to sepia tone the whole print first"