Crossword-Solution: TONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TONE | anagram | ENTO, ETON, NETO, NOTE, TENO |
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Sentences with TONE (5)
Darling could not leave it hanging out at the window, it looked so like the washing and lowered the whole tone of the house.
When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.” The Farmer and the Stork A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone.
Barely saluting the callers, he turned at once to his wife and began, in an outraged tone, “I have to leave my team to drive the old woman Hiller’s hogs out-a my wheat.
Like exceptional emphasis in the tone of a genius, that which would have made mediocrity ridiculous was an addition to recognized power.
Quotes with TONE (3)
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
Dimitri's voice snapped my attention back to him. "That's Adrian Ivashkov." He said the name the same way everyone else did. "Yeah, I know.""This is the second time I've seen you with him.""Yeah," I replied glibly. "We hang out sometimes." Dimitri arched an eyebrow, then jerked his head back toward where we'd come from. "You hang out in his room a lot?" Several retorts popped into my head, and then a golden one took precedence. "What happens between him and me is none of your…
I’m fairly certain, Captain,” she said, “that the more you discover about me, the more you will dislike me. Therefore, let’s cut to the chase and acknowledge that we don’t like each other. Then we won’t have to bother with the in-between part.” She was so bloody frank and practical about the whole thing that Christopher couldn’t help but be amused.“I’m afraid I can’t oblige you.”“Why not?”“Because when you said that just now, I found myself starting to like you.”“You’ll recov…
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 937 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).