Volume vs. Tone
Volumenoun
A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
Volumenoun
Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
Volumenoun
The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
Volumenoun
A bound book.
Volumenoun
A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
Volumenoun
Quantity.
Volumenoun
(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
Volumenoun
(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
Volumeverb
(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
Volumeverb
(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
Volumenoun
A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
Volumenoun
Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
Volumenoun
Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
Volumenoun
Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
Volumenoun
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
Volumenoun
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;
Volumenoun
the property of something that is great in magnitude;
Volumenoun
physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;
Volumenoun
a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications;
Volumenoun
a relative amount;
Volumenoun
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
Volume
Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or 3D shape occupies or contains. Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre.
Tonenoun
(music) A specific pitch.
Tonenoun
(music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
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(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;
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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.
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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
