Meaning

16 senses
  1. A specific pitch.

    Ton

    тонton

  2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

    тонton

  3. (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.

    Ton

  4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

    Klang

    тонton

    (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

  5. The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.

    Ton

    тонton

    тонton

    a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

  6. (dated)A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

    Children often read with a tone.

  7. The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.

    Stimmung

    интона́цияintonácija, тонton

  8. The shade or quality of a colour.

    Farbton

    тонton, отте́нокotténok

    the quality of a person's voice

  9. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

    This picture has tone.

  10. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.

    то́нусtónus

    то́нусtónus

  11. The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

  12. Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

    the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

Examples

242 sentences
  1. Tom spoke in an angry tone.

    Том говорив сердитим голосом.

    ruТом говорил сердитым тоном.

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  2. I don't like your tone.

    Мені не подобається твій тон.

    ruМне не нравится твой тон.

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  3. The piano has a good tone.

    ruУ этого пианино хорошее звучание.

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  4. Don't use that tone with me.

    ruНе говори со мной таким тоном.

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  5. There was a sudden change in her tone.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning:
firmness of a muscle or organ:
Русский
By meaning 4
specific pitch, quality and duration; a note:
manner in which speech or writing is expressed:
shade or quality of a colour:
firmness of a muscle or organ:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
specific pitch, quality and duration; a note:
character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice:
manner in which speech or writing is expressed:
shade or quality of a colour:

Origin

From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old Fren

From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, tonos, and tonus.

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Forms

plural: tones
Singulartone
Pluraltones

regular

Synonyms

22 synonyms
an interval of a major second:whole tone
Close in meaning

Word family

124 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tone — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto