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Tone

[təʊn] or [ton]

解釋/意思:

(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'.

(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'.

(noun.) a steady sound without overtones; 'they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies'.

(noun.) a musical interval of two semitones.

(noun.) the quality of a person's voice; 'he began in a conversational tone'; 'he spoke in a nervous tone of voice'.

(verb.) give a healthy elasticity to; 'Let's tone our muscles'.

(verb.) change to a color image; 'tone a photographic image'.

(verb.) change the color or tone of; 'tone a negative'.

(verb.) vary the pitch of one's speech.

(verb.) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; 'The students chanted the same slogan over and over again'.

杰拉尔德編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

(n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

(n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

(n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

(n.) State of mind; temper; mood.

(n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.

(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

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同義詞及近義詞:

n. [1]. Sound, note.[2]. Accent, intonation, emphasis, cadence, modulation.[3]. Temper, mood, state of mind.[4]. Vigor, strength, energy, force, tension, elasticity.[5]. Prevailing color (of a picture), general effect, style, manner, cast.[6]. Tenor, drift, prevailing character, spirit.

錄入:山姆

同義詞及反義詞:

SYN:Pitch, loudness, mood, intonation, sound, temper, tenor, character, drift,effect

ANT:Atony, laxity, tunelessness

編輯:蒂姆

解釋/意思:

n. the character of a sound: quality of the voice: harmony of the colours of a painting also its characteristic or prevailing effect as due to the management of chiaroscuro and to the effect of light upon the quality of colour: (phot.) the shade or colour of a finished positive picture: (gram.) syllabic stress special accent given to a syllable: character or style: state of mind: mood: a healthy state of the body.—v.t. to utter with an affected tone: to intone to utter in a drawling way: to give tone or quality to in respect either of sound or colour: to alter or modify the colour.—adj. Tō′nal.—n. Tonal′ity.—adjs. Toned having a tone (in compounds); Tone′less.—Tone down to give a lower tone to to moderate to soften to harmonise the colours of as to light and shade as a painting.

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