Tone vs. Inflection

Tonenoun

(music) A specific pitch.

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

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

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

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General character, mood, or trend.

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

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(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.

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

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(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

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The shade or quality of a colour.

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

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

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(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.

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(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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

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State of mind; temper; mood.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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;

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

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

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

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

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

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a steady sound without overtones;

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

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a musical interval of two semitones

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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

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a modulation of the voice expressing a particular feeling or mood

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

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

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an atmosphere of respectability or class

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Inflectionnoun

(grammar) A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.

Inflectionnoun

A change in pitch or tone of voice.

Inflectionnoun

(mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.

Inflectionnoun

A turning away from a straight course.

Inflectionnoun

(optometry) diffraction

Inflectionnoun

The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

Inflectionnoun

A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

Inflectionnoun

A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.

Inflectionnoun

The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.

Inflectionnoun

Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.

Inflectionnoun

Same as Diffraction.

Inflectionnoun

a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

Inflectionnoun

the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

Inflectionnoun

deviation from a straight or normal course

Inflectionnoun

a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation, in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, determiners, participles, prepositions and postpositions, numerals, articles etc., as declension.