TONE

The quality of a person's voice

Example: "He began in a conversational tone"

• tone of voice

• delivery  15
• manner of speaking
• speech  13

• note  4
• rotundity  13
• roundness  10
• undertone  10

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages

Example: "The beijing dialect uses four tones"

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

Example: "The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"

• quality  19
• timber  10
• timbre  10

• sound property

• harmonic  15
• resonance  11
• color  7
• coloration  12
• • colour  8
  • colouration  13
  • nasality  11
  • plangency  17
  • resonance  11
  • reverberance
  • ringing  9
  • sonority  11
  • sonorousness  12
  • vibrancy  18
  • shrillness  13
  • stridence  12
  • stridency  15
  • register  9
  • metallicity
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The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Example: "The feel of the city excited him"

• feel  7
• feeling  11
• flavor  12
• flavour  13
• look  8
• smell  7
• spirit  8

• ambiance  14
• ambience  14
• atmosphere  17

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• zeitgeist  19

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

Example: "After several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"

• shade  9
• tincture  10
• tint  4

• color  7
• coloring  11
• colour  8
• colouring  12

• mellowness  15
• richness  13
• tinge  6
• undertone  10

A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

Example: "The singer held the note too long"

• musical note
• note  4

• musical notation

• keynote  14
• tonic  7
• supertonic  14
• mediant  10
• • subdominant  16
  • dominant  11
  • submediant  15
  • leading tone
  • subtonic  12
  • pedal  8
  • pedal point
  • shake  12
  • trill  5
  • middle c
  • chord  11
  • passing note
  • passing tone
  • semibreve  16
  • whole note
  • half note
  • minim  9
  • crotchet  15
  • quarter note
  • eighth note
  • quaver  18
  • semiquaver  24
  • sixteenth note
  • demisemiquaver  31
  • thirty-second note
  • hemidemisemiquaver
  • sixty-fourth note
  • acciaccatura  20
  • appoggiatura  18
  • grace note
  • blue note
  • monotone  10
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A steady sound without overtones

Example: "They tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"

• pure tone

• auditory sensation
• sound  6

• harmonic  15

The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

Example: "The doctor tested my tonicity"

• tonicity  13
• tonus  5

• tautness  8
• tenseness  9
• tension  7
• tensity  10

• catatonia  11
• muscle tone
• muscular tonus
• myotonia  13
• • hypertonia  18
  • hypertonicity  26
  • hypertonus
  • hypotonia  17
  • hypotonicity  25
  • hypotonus
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A musical interval of two semitones

• step  6
• whole step
• whole tone

The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author

Example: "The general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"