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src: wikipedia
- Definition
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- tone :the quality of a person's voice
- he began in a conversational tone|he spoke in a nervous tone of voice
- tone :utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- The students chanted the same slogan over and over again
- 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
- 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
- tone :change the color or tone of
- tone :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
- tone :change to a color image
- tone a photographic image
- 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