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  • Definition
    • 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 a negative

    • 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

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