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tone

noun
  1. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
    shade
  2. a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
    “The Beijing dialect uses four tones.”
  3. in music, the distinctive property of a complex sound such as a voice, noise or musical sound
    “Your guitar has wicked tone.”
    timber
  4. 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”
  5. a steady sound without overtones
    “They tested your hearing with pure tones of different frequencies.”
    pure tone
  6. a musical interval of two semitones
    step
  7. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
    note
  8. the quality of a person's voice
    “They began in a conversational tone.”
    tone of voice
  9. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
    feeling
  10. the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
    tonicity
verb
  1. give a healthy elasticity to
    “Let's tone our muscles”
    tone upstrengthen
  2. change to a color image
    “tone a photographic image”
  3. change the color or tone of
    “tone a negative”
  4. vary the pitch of one's speech
    modulateinflect
  5. utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
    chantintone