the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. 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"ġ0. the quality of a person's voice "he began in a conversational tone" "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"ĩ. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound "the singer held the note too long"Ĩ. a steady sound without overtones "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"ħ. 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. (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"ĥ. (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"Ĥ. ![]() ![]() a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"ģ. ![]() any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of musicĢ.
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