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According to WordNet, the noun "tone" has 10 sense(s).

104959230 a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted".

106859056 a musical interval of two semitones.

106865345 a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long".

107082573 the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice".

105719605 a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies".

114544672 the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity".

105211451 the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome".

114526182 the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason".

104986883 (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones".

104987620 (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet".


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