tone
英 [təʊn]
美[ton]
- n. 语气；色调；音调；音色
- vt. 增强；用某种调子说
- vi. 颜色调和；呈现悦目色调
- n. (Tone)人名；(罗、塞、乍)托内；(英)托恩
英英释意
- 1. the quality of a person's voice;
- "he began in a conversational tone"
- "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
- 2. (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages;
- "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
- 3. (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"
- 4. 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"
- 5. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;
- "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
- 6. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;
- "the singer held the note too long"
- 7. a steady sound without overtones;
- "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
- 8. the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli;
- "the doctor tested my tonicity"
- 9. a musical interval of two semitones
- 10. 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"
