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Tone
Tone
n.
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
.
Tone
n.
Color
quality
proper
;
called
also
hue
.
Also
, a
gradation
of
color
,
either
a
hue
, or a
tint
or
shade
.
Tone
n.
The
condition
of
normal
balance
of a
healthy
plant
in
its
relations
to
light
,
heat
,
and
moisture
.
Tone
n.
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
.
Tone
n.
Accent
, or
inflection
or
modulation
of
the
voice
, as
adapted
to
express
emotion
or
passion
.
Tone
n.
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
.
Tone
n.
A
sound
considered
as to
pitch
; as,
the
seven
tones
of
the
octave
;
she
has
good
high
tones
.
Tone
n.
The
larger
kind
of
interval
between
contiguous
sounds
in
the
diatonic
scale
,
the
smaller
being
called
a
semitone
as, a
whole
tone
too
flat
;
raise
it a
tone
.
Tone
n.
The
peculiar
quality
of
sound
in
any
voice
or
instrument
; as, a
rich
tone
, a
reedy
tone
.
Tone
n.
A
mode
or
tune
or
plain
chant
; as,
the
Gregorian
tones
.
Tone
n.
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
.
Tone
n.
Tonicity
; as,
arterial
tone
.
Tone
n.
State
of
mind
;
temper
;
mood
.
Tone
n.
Tenor
;
character
;
spirit
;
drift
; as,
the
tone
of
his
remarks
was
commendatory
.
Tone
n.
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
.
Tone
n.
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
.
Tone
v. t.
To
utter
with
an
affected
tone
.
Tone
v. t.
To
give
tone
, or a
particular
tone
, to; to
tune
.
See
Tune
, v. t.
Tone
v. t.
To
bring
, as a
print
, to a
certain
required
shade
of
color
, as by
chemical
treatment
.
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