| tone deafness |
an inability to distinguish differences in pitch
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| tone |
the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" timbre: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" spirit: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" shade: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" note: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" vary the pitch of one's speech a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" tonicity: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" a musical interval of two semitones 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" give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"
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| tone |
The appearance or color of coffee. ie "This light toned coffee resembles the brown robes of the Franciscan Order."
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| tone |
An audible sound of specific pitch and waveform.
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| tone |
An author's attitude toward the characters and events in the story
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