HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of TONE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | tow'n |
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| Rhymes | acetone, allophone, alone, and 122 more rhymes in own... |
| Meaning | The quality of a person's voice. |
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| Examples | "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" |
| Synonyms | tone of voice |
| Broader | manner of speaking, speech, delivery |
| Narrower | note; roundness, rotundity; undertone |
| Verbs | intonate |
| Meaning | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages. |
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| Examples | "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" |
| Category | linguistics |
| Broader | pitch |
| Adjectives | tonic, tonal |
| Verbs | intonate; tone |
| Meaning | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound). |
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| Examples | "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" |
| Synonyms | timbre, timber, quality |
| Category | music |
| Broader | sound property |
| Narrower | harmonic; resonance; color, colour, coloration, colouration; nasality; plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy; shrillness, stridence, stridency; register |
| Adjectives | tonal |
| Verbs | tone |
| Meaning | The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people. |
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| Examples | "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" |
| Synonyms | spirit, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell |
| Broader | atmosphere, ambiance, ambience |
| Narrower | Hollywood; Zeitgeist |
| Meaning | A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color. |
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| Synonyms | shade, tint, tincture |
| Broader | color, colour, coloring, colouring |
| Narrower | mellowness; richness; undertone, tinge |
| Verbs | tone; tone |
| Meaning | A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound. |
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| Synonyms | note, musical note |
| Member of | scale, musical scale |
| Broader | musical notation |
| Narrower | tonic, keynote; supertonic; mediant; subdominant; dominant; submediant; subtonic, leading tone; pedal point, pedal; trill, shake; middle C; chord; passing note, passing tone; whole note, semibreve; half note, minim; quarter note, crotchet; eighth note, quaver; sixteenth note, semiquaver; thirty-second note, demisemiquaver; sixty-fourth note, hemidemisemiquaver; grace note, appoggiatura, acciaccatura; blue note; monotone |
| Adjectives | tonic; tonic |
| Meaning | A steady sound without overtones. |
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| Examples | "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" |
| Synonyms | pure tone |
| Broader | sound, auditory sensation |
| Narrower | harmonic |
| Adjectives | tonal |
| Meaning | The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli. |
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| Synonyms | tonicity, tonus |
| Contrary | atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia |
| Category | muscle, muscular tissue |
| Broader | tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness |
| Narrower | catatonia; muscular tonus, muscle tone; myotonia; hypertonia, hypertonus, hypertonicity; hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity |
| Adjectives | tonic |
| Verbs | tone |
| Meaning | A musical interval of two semitones. |
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| Synonyms | whole tone, step, whole step |
| Broader | interval, musical interval |
| Adjectives | isotonic |
| Meaning | The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author. |
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| Examples | "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" |
| Broader | quality |
| Meaning | Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | chant, intone |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise |
| Meaning | Vary the pitch of one's speech. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | inflect, modulate |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise |
| Nouns | tone; tone |
| Meaning | Change the color or tone of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "tone a negative" |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Nouns | toner; toner; tone |
| Meaning | Change to a color image. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "tone a photographic image" |
| Broader | color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in |
| Nouns | toner; tone |
| Meaning | Give a healthy elasticity to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Let's tone our muscles" |
| Synonyms | tone up, strengthen |
| Broader | exercise, work out |
| Nouns | tone |
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