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▸ noun: (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
▸ noun: (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
▸ noun: The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
▸ noun: (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
▸ noun: (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
▸ noun: The shade or quality of a colour.
▸ noun: The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
▸ noun: The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
▸ noun: (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
▸ noun: (figuratively)
▸ noun: The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
▸ noun: (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
▸ verb: (transitive) to give a particular tone to
▸ verb: (transitive) to change the colour of
▸ verb: (transitive) to make (something) firmer
▸ verb: (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
▸ noun: A male given name, a short form of Anthony/Antony
▸ noun: A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.
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