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tone n. [
tone of voice] the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
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tone n. (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
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tone n. [
timbre, timber, quality] (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"
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tone n. [
spirit, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] 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"
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tone n. [
shade, tint, tincture] a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
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