release tone ending | (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone |
attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
tone arm pickup pickup arm | mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge |
shade tint tincture tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color, after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted |
tone | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages, the Beijing dialect uses four tones |
timbre timber quality tone | (music) 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 |
head register head voice head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
chest register chest voice chest tone | the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing |
tone | 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 |
tone pure tone | a steady sound without overtones, they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies |
overtone partial partial tone | a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency |
keynote | a fundamental or central idea |
tonic keynote | (music) the first note of a diatonic scale |
subtonic leading tone | (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale |
tone whole tone step whole step | a musical interval of two semitones |
quarter tone quarter-tone | half of a semitone |
note musical note tone | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound, the singer held the note too long |
passing note passing tone | a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes |
tone language tonal language | a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings |
symphonic poem tone poem | an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales |
twelve-tone music -tone music twelve-tone system -tone system | a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg, uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row) |
tone tone of voice | the quality of a person's voice, he began in a conversational tone, he spoke in a nervous tone of voice |
tone system tonal system | the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language |
keynote | the principal theme in a speech or literary work |
keynote speech keynote address | a speech setting forth the keynote |
spirit tone feel feeling flavor flavour look smell | the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people, the feel of the city excited him, a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting, it had the smell of treason |
tonicity tonus tone | the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli, the doctor tested my tonicity |
muscular tonus muscle tone | normal tonicity of the muscles, exercise improves muscle tone |
tone deafness tin ear | an inability to distinguish differences in pitch |
tone tone up strengthen | give a healthy elasticity to, Let's tone our muscles |
tone | change to a color image, tone a photographic image |
tone | change the color or tone of, tone a negative |
keynote | set the keynote of, Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection |
keynote | give the keynote address to (an audience) |
tone down moderate tame | make less strong or intense, soften, Tone down that aggressive letter, The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements |
tone inflect modulate | vary the pitch of one's speech |
tone chant intone | utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically, The students chanted the same slogan over and over again |
muffle mute dull damp dampen tone down | deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
tone-deaf | unable to appreciate music |