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v. i.
To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
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.
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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.
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A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
v. t.
To utter with an affected tone.
a.
Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.
v. t.
To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
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High in tone or sound.
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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.
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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.
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The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
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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.
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Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
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Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
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A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
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Having no tone; unmusical.
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Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
v. t.
To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
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