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tone
  1. (music) A specific pitch.
  2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  5. General character, mood, or trend.
  6. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  7. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
  8. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
  10. The shade or quality of a colour.
  11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
  12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus
  13. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  14. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
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  16. Examples:
    1. “How else were they to respond to the easy, self-confident tone in her voice as she spoke of her expertise on the matter?”
      “The slightly forced tone of the painting suggests an artist who is not yet in full command of his means of expression.”
      “She typically dresses in clothing that combines an earthy tone with vivid, colorful trims.”
tonality
  1. (music) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
  2. (music) A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.
  3. (music) The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.
  4. The interrelation of the tones in a painting.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The tonality of her speech conveyed both confidence and authority.”
      “Yet by bar 3, where the two basic scale-motifs are concatenated to form five notes of an A minor scale, the tonality is in doubt.”
      “The student begins to understand the origins of key and tonality, rather than memorizing the order of flats and sharps.”
tonic
  1. A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
  2. Tonic water.
  3. (US, Massachusetts) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
  4. (figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Milk thistle extract, long used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine, may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins.”
      “I imagine all your adventures have served as a restorative tonic to the high-speed life of a newsman.”
tonic
  1. (music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
  2. (music) The triad built on the tonic note.
  3. (phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Milk thistle extract, long used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine, may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins.”
      “I imagine all your adventures have served as a restorative tonic to the high-speed life of a newsman.”
tonicity
  1. (medicine) The normal presence of tone or tension in a muscle or organ; tonus
  2. (sciences) The ability of a solution to exert an osmotic pressure upon a membrane
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Hyponatremia in association with normal tonicity is a laboratory phenomenon.”
      “As the electrolytes shift out of the cells, fluid shifts into the cells so that the tonicity matches that of the extracellular space.”
      “They must have a sufficient tonicity in order that this energy does not loose itself.”
tonepad
  1. A form of simple modem that generates tones used to control a device at the other end of a telephone line.
toneme
  1. (linguistics) a phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings.
tonicization
  1. (music) the temporary change of an originally non-tonic tone to tonic
tonal
  1. (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
tonelessness
  1. The state or condition of being toneless.
  2. Synonyms:
tonation
  1. The tonal properties of a sound.
tona
  1. Alternative form of tonal (animal companion).
toning
  1. Use of colour; tone.
tonick
  1. Obsolete form of tonic.
tony
  1. (archaic) A simpleton.
tonicizations
  1. plural of tonicization
tonations
  1. plural of tonation
tonalities
  1. plural of tonality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “While some tonalities require the use of black keys, no key signatures are employed.”
      “From a distance, the composition's subtle range of tonalities evokes a Morandi still life.”
      “Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another.”
tonicities
tonepads
  1. plural of tonepad
tonemes
  1. plural of toneme
tonings
  1. plural of toning
tonicks
  1. plural of tonick
tonals
  1. plural of tonal
tonics
  1. plural of tonic
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was included, because of its astringent qualities, in skin tonics, and became a principal ingredient in shampoos and hair rinses.”
      “Hawthorn berry and flower, for example, are considered excellent cardiac tonics, diuretics and astringents.”
      “In small doses it serves as a stimulant for the entire digestive tract, associating it with bitter tonics, or other restoratives.”
tonas
  1. plural of tona
tones
tonies
  1. plural of tony
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