tone
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(verb) give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" |
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Synonyms: strengthen, tone up |
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Related Words: exercise, work out |
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(verb) change to a color image; of photography |
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Related Words: color |
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(verb) change the color or tone of |
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Related Words: colour, discolor, discolour |
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(noun) (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" |
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Related Words: pitch |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: quality |
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(noun) a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" |
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Synonyms: pure tone |
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Related Words: auditory sensation, harmonic, sound |
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(noun) a musical interval of two semitones |
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Synonyms: step, whole step, whole tone |
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Related Words: interval, musical interval |
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(noun) the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" |
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Synonyms: tone of voice |
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Related Words: delivery, manner of speaking, note, speech, undertone |
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(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" |
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Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell, spirit |
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Related Words: ambiance, ambience, atmosphere |
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(noun) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" |
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Synonyms: musical note, note |
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Related Words: acciaccatura, appoggiatura, blue note, chord, crotchet, demisemiquaver, dominant, eighth note, grace note, half note, hemidemisemiquaver, keynote, leading tone, mediant, middle C, minim, musical notation, passing note, passing tone, pedal, pedal point, quarter note, quaver, semibreve, semiquaver, shake, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, subdominant, submediant, subtonic, supertonic, thirty-second note, tonic, trill, whole note |
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(noun) the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" |
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Synonyms: tonicity, tonus |
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Related Words: catatonia, muscle tone, muscular tonus, myotonia, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: shade, tincture, tint |
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Related Words: color, coloring, colour, colouring, tinge, undertone |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: quality, timber, timbre |
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Related Words: color, colour, fullness, harshness, mellowness, nasality, plangency, register, resonance, reverberance, richness, ringing, roughness, shrillness, sonority, sonorousness, sound property, stridence, stridency, vibrancy |
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