Tenor vs. Tone

Tenornoun

(music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

Tenornoun

A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor higher than bass and lower than alto range.

Tenornoun

Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.

Tenornoun

The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.

Tenornoun

Tone, as of a conversation.

Tenornoun

(obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.

Tenornoun

(linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.

Tenornoun

(finance) Time to maturity of a bond.

Tenornoun

Stamp; character; nature.

Tenornoun

(legal) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

Tenornoun

That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

Tenornoun

An tenor saxophone

Tenoradjective

Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

Tenornoun

A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

Tenornoun

That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

Tenornoun

Stamp; character; nature.

Tenornoun

An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

Tenornoun

The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.

Tenornoun

the adult male singing voice above baritone

Tenornoun

the pitch range of the highest male voice

Tenornoun

an adult male with a tenor voice

Tenornoun

pervading note of an utterance;

Tenoradjective

(of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass;

Tenoradjective

of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice;

Tenornoun

a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range

Tenornoun

a singer with a tenor voice.

Tenornoun

a part written for a tenor voice

Tenornoun

an instrument, especially a saxophone, trombone, tuba, or viol, of the second or third lowest pitch in its family

Tenornoun

the largest and deepest bell of a ring or set.

Tenornoun

the general meaning, sense, or content of something

Tenornoun

a settled or prevailing character or direction, especially the course of a person's life or habits

Tenornoun

the actual wording of a document.

Tenornoun

the time that must elapse before a bill of exchange or promissory note becomes due for payment.

Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is one of the highest of the male voice types.

Tonenoun

(music) A specific pitch.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

General character, mood, or trend.

Tonenoun

(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

Tonenoun

(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.

Tonenoun

(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

Tonenoun

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

Tonenoun

The shade or quality of a colour.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

(biology) 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.

Tonenoun

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

Toneverb

(transitive) to give a particular tone to

Toneverb

(transitive) to change the colour of

Toneverb

(transitive) to make (something) firmer

Toneverb

(intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour

Toneverb

(transitive) To utter with an affected tone.

Tonepronoun

The one (of two).

Tonenoun

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

Tonenoun

Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

Tonenoun

A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

Tonenoun

A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

Tonenoun

That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tonenoun

Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

Tonenoun

State of mind; temper; mood.

Tonenoun

Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

Tonenoun

General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

Tonenoun

The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; - commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

Tonenoun

Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.

Tonenoun

Color quality proper; - called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.

Tonenoun

The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture.

Toneverb

To utter with an affected tone.

Toneverb

To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

Toneverb

To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

Tonenoun

the quality of a person's voice;

Tonenoun

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages;

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

Tonenoun

a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

Tonenoun

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;

Tonenoun

a steady sound without overtones;

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

a musical interval of two semitones

Tonenoun

the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author;

Toneverb

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

Toneverb

of one's speech, varying the pitch

Toneverb

change the color or tone of;

Toneverb

change to a color image;

Toneverb

give a healthy elasticity to;

Tonenoun

a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength

Tonenoun

a modulation of the voice expressing a particular feeling or mood

Tonenoun

a musical note or other sound used as a signal on a telephone or answering machine.

Tonenoun

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Tonenoun

an atmosphere of respectability or class

Tonenoun

a basic interval in classical Western music, equal to two semitones and separating, for example, the first and second notes of an ordinary scale (such as C and D, or E and F sharp); a major second

Tonenoun

the particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a shade of a colour

Tonenoun

the general effect of colour or of light and shade in a picture.

Tonenoun

a slight degree of difference in the intensity of a colour.

Tonenoun

(in some languages, such as Chinese) a particular pitch pattern on a syllable used to make semantic distinctions.

Tonenoun

(in some languages, such as English) intonation on a word or phrase used to add functional meaning.

Tonenoun

the normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle

Tonenoun

the normal level of activity in a nerve fibre

Toneverb

give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle)

Toneverb

(of a muscle or other bodily part) became stronger or firmer

Toneverb

harmonize with (something) in terms of colour

Toneverb

give (a monochrome picture) an altered colour in finishing by means of a chemical solution