Crossword-Solution: MODULATE 8 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Modulate v. t. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain
portion.
Modulate v. t. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical
manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or
speaking.
Modulate v. i. To pass from one key into another.

We have 24 clues for the answer “MODULATE”

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vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of 1 answer
vary in tone 1 answer
Vary, as a tone 1 answer
Vary one's pitch 1 answer
Vary a tone 1 answer
Tune to a pitch 1 answer
Tune to a key or pitch 1 answer
Soften, as one's voice level 1 answer
Shift from one key to another, in music. 1 answer
Adjust, as pitch 1 answer
Adjust, as a voice 1 answer
Passes imperceptibly from tone to tone 3 answers
ADJUST THE PITCH, TONE, OR VOLUME OF 11 answers
attemper 17 answers
Tone down 31 answers
regulate 38 answers
Soften 48 answers
move slightly 49 answers
Vary 52 answers
Adapt 52 answers
attune 53 answers
MAKE suitable 56 answers
Temper 59 answers
Adjust 70 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MODULATE (5)

She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel upon the senseless wood.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
There being no teeth to modulate the voice, it had a mumbled fierceness, not passionate, but stern, which absolutely made me quiver like calf’s-foot jelly.
Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
These, it is said, are the remains of some of the rites of the primitive Church; but they are of still higher antiquity, having been observed among the Greeks and Romans, and frequently mentioned by their writers, and were no doubt the spontaneous tributes of unlettered affection, originating long before art had tasked itself to modulate sorrow into song or story it on the monument.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Washington Irving 2000
They proved to be a vagrant band, such as Rome, and all Italy, abounds with; comprising a harp, a flute, and a violin, which, though greatly the worse for wear, the performers had skill enough to provoke and modulate into tolerable harmony.
The Marble Faun, Volume I. Nathaniel Hawthorne 2006
Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these, glide into our spirits, and we participate the invention of nature? This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees; by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
Essays, Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 2001

Quotes with MODULATE (3)

Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no cap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. presumably, he said, these must be some elementary particles - kingon…
Terry Pratchett Mort
Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in which we can linguistically communicate to others — as well as to ourselves — the sometimes hidden contents of our implicitly remembering minds. Stories make available perspectives on the emotional themes of our implicit memory that may otherwise be consciously unavailable to us. This may be one reason why journal writing and intimate comm…
Daniel J. Siegel The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-fli…
Terry Pratchett
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1953–2020).