Crossword-Solution: INTONATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Intonation | n. | A thundering; thunder. |
| Intonation | n. | The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale. |
| Intonation | n. | Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false. |
| Intonation | n. | Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “INTONATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of singing in a monotonous tone | 1 answer |
| The raise and fall of the voice in speaking | 1 answer |
| Opening phrase of a Gregorian chant. | 1 answer |
| INTONING in singing voice | 1 answer |
| Gregorian-chant opener | 1 answer |
| Rise and fall of the pitch of the voice | 4 answers |
| modulation | 5 answers |
| pronunciation | 10 answers |
| tonality | 11 answers |
| speech pattern | 12 answers |
| Recitation | 13 answers |
| tone of voice | 14 answers |
| timbre | 15 answers |
| sonority | 15 answers |
| Accentuate | 23 answers |
| Chant | 23 answers |
| Inflection | 24 answers |
| Cadence | 28 answers |
| Melody | 48 answers |
| Quiver | 51 answers |
| utterance | 56 answers |
| ACCENT ___ | 57 answers |
| Quivering | 58 answers |
| Tune | 59 answers |
| resonance | 59 answers |
| phonation | 60 answers |
| articulation | 71 answers |
| voice | 74 answers |
| System | 77 answers |
| Pitch | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with INTONATION (5)
That’s how I can do it,” said the sergeant, with an intonation of such exquisite fidelity to nature that it was evidently not all acted now.
You read, I will suppose, attentively enough; but you cannot see the speaker’s white, sincere face in the bright circle of the little lamp, nor hear the intonation of his voice.
Walters was very earnest of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.
North Dormer took the Mountain for granted, and implied its disparagement by an intonation rather than by explicit criticism.
Down came the beetle upon poor John Smith’s hand, and squashed en to a pummy.” “Dear me, dear me! poor fellow!” said the vicar, with an intonation like the groans of the wounded in a pianoforte performance of the “Battle of Prague.” “John Smith, the master-mason?” cried Stephen hurriedly.
Quotes with INTONATION (3)
Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
The Allatians believe that they have a writing system superior to all others. Unlike books written in alphabets, syllabaries, or logograms, an Allatian book captures not only words, but also the writer’s tone, voice, inflection, emphasis, intonation, rhythm. It is simultaneously a score and a recording. A speech sounds like a speech, a lament a lament, and a story re-creates perfectly the teller’s breathless excitement. For the Allatians, reading is literally hearing the voic…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–1983).