Tone vs. Pitch
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.
Tonenoun
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.
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.
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(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
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(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.
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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.
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;
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(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
Pitchnoun
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
Pitchnoun
A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
Pitchnoun
(geology) Pitchstone.
Pitchnoun
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
Pitchnoun
(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
Pitchnoun
(sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" is the preferred word.
Pitchnoun
An effort to sell or promote something.
Pitchnoun
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
Pitchnoun
The angle at which an object sits.
Pitchnoun
A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
Pitchnoun
The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
Pitchnoun
The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
Pitchnoun
(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
Pitchnoun
The place where a busker performs.
Pitchnoun
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
Pitchnoun
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
Pitchnoun
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
Pitchnoun
(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
Pitchnoun
(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
Pitchnoun
A person or animal's height.
Pitchnoun
(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitchnoun
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitchnoun
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
Pitchnoun
(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitchnoun
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
Pitchnoun
(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Pitchverb
To cover or smear with pitch.
Pitchverb
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To throw.
Pitchverb
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
Pitchverb
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To throw away; discard.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitchverb
(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitchverb
To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
Pitchverb
To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
Pitchverb
To bounce on the playing surface.
Pitchverb
To settle and build up, without melting.
Pitchverb
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Pitchverb
(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
Pitchverb
(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
Pitchverb
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
Pitchverb
To set or fix.
Pitchverb
To discard for some gain.
Pitchverb
(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
Pitchverb
(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
Pitchnoun
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
Pitchnoun
See Pitchstone.
Pitchnoun
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
Pitchnoun
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitchnoun
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Pitchnoun
Height; stature.
Pitchnoun
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitchnoun
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
Pitchnoun
The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
Pitchnoun
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitchnoun
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.
Pitchnoun
The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.
Pitchverb
To cover over or smear with pitch.
Pitchverb
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Pitchverb
To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
Pitchverb
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
Pitchverb
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
Pitchverb
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
Pitchverb
To set or fix, as a price or value.
Pitchverb
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitchverb
To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Pitchverb
To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.
Pitchverb
To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
Pitchnoun
the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
Pitchnoun
(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Pitchnoun
a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);
Pitchnoun
promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
Pitchnoun
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;
Pitchnoun
any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Pitchnoun
a high approach shot in golf
Pitchnoun
an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
Pitchnoun
abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
Pitchnoun
the action or manner of throwing something;
Pitchverb
throw or toss with a light motion;
Pitchverb
move abruptly;
Pitchverb
fall or plunge forward;
Pitchverb
set to a certain pitch;
Pitchverb
sell or offer for sale from place to place
Pitchverb
be at an angle;
Pitchverb
heel over;
Pitchverb
erect and fasten;
Pitchverb
throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
Pitchverb
hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
Pitchverb
lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
Pitchverb
set the level or character of;
Pitchnoun
the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone
Pitchnoun
a standard degree of highness or lowness used in performance
Pitchnoun
the steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.
Pitchnoun
a section of a climb, especially a steep one.
Pitchnoun
the height to which a hawk soars before swooping on its prey.
Pitchnoun
a level of the intensity of something, especially a high level
Pitchnoun
an area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game
Pitchnoun
the strip of ground between the two sets of stumps
Pitchnoun
a delivery of the ball by the pitcher.
Pitchnoun
the spot where the ball bounces when bowled.
Pitchnoun
a high approach shot on to the green.
Pitchnoun
a form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something
Pitchnoun
a place where a street vendor or performer stations themselves or sets up a stall
Pitchnoun
a swaying or oscillation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle around a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of motion
Pitchnoun
the distance between successive corresponding points or lines, for example between the teeth of a cogwheel.
Pitchnoun
a measure of the angle of the blades of a screw propeller, equal to the distance forward a blade would move in one revolution if it exerted no thrust on the medium.
Pitchnoun
the density of typed or printed characters on a line, typically expressed as numbers of characters per inch.
Pitchnoun
a sticky resinous black or dark brown substance that is semi-liquid when hot and hardens when cold, obtained by distilling tar or turpentine and used for waterproofing.
Pitchnoun
any of various substances similar to pitch, such as asphalt or bitumen.
Pitchverb
set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch
Pitchverb
set or aim at a particular level, target, or audience
Pitchverb
throw roughly or casually
Pitchverb
fall heavily, especially headlong
Pitchverb
throw (the ball) for the batter to try to hit.
Pitchverb
(of a bowler) cause (the ball) to strike the ground at a particular point
Pitchverb
hit (the ball) on to the green with a pitch shot.
Pitchverb
(of the ball) strike the ground in a particular spot
Pitchverb
make a bid to obtain a contract or other business
Pitchverb
try to persuade someone to buy or accept (something)
Pitchverb
set up and fix in position
Pitchverb
fix (the stumps) in the ground and place the bails in preparation for play
Pitchverb
(of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down
Pitchverb
(of a vehicle) move with a vigorous jolting motion
Pitchverb
cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge
Pitchverb
slope downwards
Pitchverb
pave (a road) with stones
Pitchverb
(in brewing) add yeast to (wort) to induce fermentation.
Pitchverb
cover, coat, or smear with pitch.
