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Look up Tone, tone, tones, or toning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tone may refer to: Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and
Tone
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, tone is the use of pitch contour, pitch register, or both to distinguish lexical
Tone_(linguistics)
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up two-tone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Two-tone, two tone, or 2 tone, etc., may refer to: Two-tone analysis, in nonlinear system measurement
Two-tone
American rapper (born 1966)
Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Loc (/toʊn loʊk/), is an American rapper, voice artist, and actor. He is
Tone_Loc
Audible signal indicating the call cannot be processed
North American reorder tone Listen to a reorder tone from North America. Example of a European reorder tone Listen to a reorder tone from Europe. Example
Reorder_tone
Steady periodic sound in music
Traditionally in Western music, a musical tone is a steady periodic sound. A musical tone is characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity (or loudness)
Musical_tone
A signal tone or signalling tone is a steady or pulsating periodic signal typically in the frequency range of sound for indicating a condition, communication
Signal_tone
Auditory illusion
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch
Shepard_tone
Musical artist
Basil Anthony Harewood, known professionally as TONE, is a British musician, singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He released his debut
Tone_(musician)
British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s
Two-tone, or 2 tone, also known as ska revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican
Two-tone_(music_genre)
Audible electrical signal in telecommunication systems
Ringing tone (audible ringing, also ringback tone) is a signaling tone in telecommunication that is heard by the originator of a telephone call while the
Ringing_tone
Irish revolutionary figure (1763–1798)
Theobald Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), posthumously known as Wolfe Tone, was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence
Wolfe_Tone
vowels and consonants—but also tones, and each syllable has one. In addition to the four main tones, there is a neutral tone that appears on weak syllables
Standard_Chinese_phonology
American comedian and actor
Michael Anthony Bell II, known professionally as Tone Bell, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Bell was born in Decatur, Georgia. He attended
Tone_Bell
Phenomenon in musical instruments
A wolf tone, wolf note, or simply a "wolf", is an undesirable phenomenon that occurs in some bowed-string musical instruments, most famously in the cello
Wolf_tone
Telecommunication signaling system
Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone
DTMF_signaling
American soul/R&B band from Oakland, California
Tony! Toni! Toné! was an American R&B/soul band from Oakland, California. During the band's heyday from the late 1980s to mid-1990s, it was composed of
Tony!_Toni!_Toné!
Mixture of a color with white or black
lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading
Tint,_shade_and_tone
(radio in particular), a spurious tone (also known as an interfering tone, a continuous tone or a spur) denotes a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes
Spurious_tone
Shorthand to convey tone or intent
A tone indicator, also called a tone tag, is a shorthand symbol or abbreviation that conveys the intended tone, intent or emotional context of a written
Tone_indicator
Perceived tones when real tones are sounded
combination tone (also called resultant tone or subjective tone) is a psychoacoustic and sometimes physical phenomenon of an additional tone or tones that are
Combination_tone
Degree of activation of airway muscle
Airway tone, short for airway smooth muscle tone, is the degree of sustained contractile activation of airway smooth muscle. The airways have a tone baseline
Airway_tone
Musical composition method
playing these files? See media help. The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is
Twelve-tone_technique
Activity of the vagus nerve
Vagal tone is activity of the vagus nerve (the 10th cranial nerve) and a fundamental component of the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system
Vagal_tone
Symbol or mark representing linguistic tone
Tone letters are letters that represent the tones of a language, most commonly in languages with contour tones. They are used both in language orthographies
Tone_letter
American actor and director (1905–1968)
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He
Franchot_Tone
Music for the reciting of chant
In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) can refer to either a repeated musical pitch or to the entire melodic formula for which that
Reciting_tone
In the theory of photography, tone reproduction is the mapping of scene luminance and color to print reflectance or display luminance, with the aim of
Tone_reproduction
Distraction technique and anti-debate tactic
A tone argument or tone policing is an informal fallacy or rhetorical tactic in which someone focuses on the tone or emotional expression of an argument
Tone_policing
A creative figure's attitude toward both a subject and also an audience
the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. The concept of a work's tone has
Tone_(literature)
Topics referred to by the same term
Tone scale may refer to: Musical scales, including the Whole tone scale Color scales Emotional tone scale, a Scientology concept Tonic (music) Diatonic
Tone_scale
Signal indicating that a call is possible
A dial tone (dialling tone in the UK) is a telephony signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such
Dial_tone
Short-term auditory illusion
A Zwicker tone is a short-term auditory illusion which resembles tinnitus (ringing of the ears). It was discovered in 1964 by Eberhard Zwicker at Bell
Zwicker_tone
Music book
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (German Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die
Sensations_of_Tone
Change in tone contour based on adjacent syllable tones
transcription delimiters. Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to individual words
Tone_sandhi
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up Toner or toner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Toner may refer to: Toner (printing), a powder mixture used in laser printers and photocopiers
Toner
Dissolved municipality in Gunma prefecture, Japan
Tone (利根村, Tone-mura) was a village located in Tone District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 5,025 and
Tone,_Gunma
Telephony signal
tone Holding tone Preemption tone Queue tone Recall dial tone Record tone Recorder warning tone Reorder tone Ringing tone, audible ringing Ring tone,
Call-progress_tone
Syllable type in the phonology in Middle Chinese
A checked tone, commonly known by the Chinese calque entering tone, is one of the four syllable types in the phonology of Middle Chinese. Although usually
Checked_tone
Three-beep signal indicating a call did not go through correctly
telephony, a special information tone (SIT) is an in-band international standard call progress tone consisting of three rising tones indicating a call has failed
Special_information_tone
tone is a feature of wireline modems. The guard tone is sent by the answering modem after it has sent the answer tone. It is a single continuous tone
Guard_tone
Sound with a sinusoidal waveform
pure tone is a sound or other signal with a sinusoidal waveform; that is, a sine wave of constant frequency, phase-shift, and amplitude. A pure tone has
Pure_tone
Type of audio filter circuit
A tone stack is a specialized type of audio filter incorporated into the circuit of an audio amplifier to alter its frequency response. The term is primarily
Tone_stack
Tone, Tóne or Þone is a given name, nickname and a surname. Tone is a Slovene masculine given name in use as a short form of Anton in Slovenia. It is also
Tone_(name)
Term in voice leading and harmony
In music, a common tone is a pitch class that is a member of, or common to (shared by) two or more chords or sets. Typically, it refers to a note shared
Common_tone_(chord)
Type of musical note
A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord
Nonchord_tone
Type of audio equalization
Tone control is a type of equalization used to make specific pitches or frequencies in an audio signal softer or louder. It allows a listener to adjust
Tone_control_circuit
Where the high or mid tones shift downward in pitch after certain other tones
Tone terracing is a type of phonetic downdrift, where the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch (downstep) after certain other
Tone_terracing
Image processing technique
Tone mapping is a technique used in image processing and computer graphics to map one set of colors to another to approximate the appearance of high-dynamic-range
Tone_mapping
Phonetic feature of some languages
A tone contour or contour tone is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word. Tone contours
Tone_contour
Musical tuning system
{\sqrt[{12}]{2}}} ≈ 1.05946). The scale unit is known as a semitone or half step. Twelve-tone equal temperament is the most widespread system in music today. It has been
Equal_temperament
System of phonetic notation
left-facing tone letters, ⟨˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩⟩, for underlying tone, and the right-facing letters, ⟨꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖⟩, for surface tone, as occurs in tone sandhi, and
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Musical interval
which itself is half a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches. Quarter tones have their roots in the music
Quarter_tone
Topics referred to by the same term
tune notes. Tone deaf, Tone Deaf, or Tone-Deaf may also refer to: "Tone Deaf", a song by Eminem on the album Music to Be Murdered By Tone-Deaf, a 2019
Tone_deaf_(disambiguation)
American gang leader
Antonio Fernandez, also known as King Tone, is the former head of the Latin Kings. In 1999, Fernandez was sentenced to 12 to 15 years for conspiring to
King_Tone
The tone decay test (also known as the threshold tone decay test or TTDT) is used in audiology to detect and measure auditory fatigue. It was developed
Tone_decay_test
Skin tone scale for machine learning research
The Monk Skin Tone Scale (MST) is an open-source, 10-shade scale describing human skin color. It was developed by Ellis Monk in partnership with Google
Monk_Skin_Tone_Scale
Musical tuning system of 24 tones per octave
Arab tone system, or system of musical tuning, is based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24-tone equal
Arab_tone_system
Any of a palette of colors similar to natural materials and landscapes
Earth tone is a term used to describe a palette of colors that are similar to natural materials and landscapes. These colors are inspired by the earth's
Earth_tone
Feature of wireline modems
Answer tone is a feature of wireline modems. ITU-T Answer Tone Typical 2,100Hz answer tone with phase reversals and amplitude modulation. Problems playing
Answer_tone
Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries
either a high or a low tone. However, low tone does not behave the same as the other two, as high tones can "spread" into low-toned syllables while the reverse
Zulu_language
Type of call-progress tone
disconnect tone in telephony is a tone provided to the remaining party to a call after the remote party hangs up. Typically, the disconnect tone is a few
Disconnect_tone
Multiphonic effect on brass instruments
Split tones are a multiphonic effect on brass instruments. During normal play, the upper and lower lips will vibrate together at the same speed. If, however
Split_tone
Sequence of all twelve chromatic tones
In music, a tone row or note row (German: Reihe or Tonreihe), also series or set, is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of
Tone_row
Topics referred to by the same term
Set The Tone may also refer to: Set the Tone (Nate James album), 2005 Set the Tone (Ghostface Killah album), 2024 Set the Tone (band), a Scottish electronic
Set_the_Tone
American singer (born 1995)
Antonio "Tone" Stith (born July 26, 1995) is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed to MNRK Records. Stith was born and raised in New Jersey and
Tone_Stith
Unicode character block
Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain
Modifier_Tone_Letters
Continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles
In physiology, medicine, and anatomy, muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles,
Muscle_tone
Guitar overdrive pedal
The King of Tone is an overdrive pedal manufactured by boutique electric guitar effects pedal maker Mike Piera under the moniker Analog Man. Released in
King_of_Tone
Tonal degree of the diatonic scale
In music theory, a leading tone (also called subsemitone or leading note in the UK) is a note or pitch which resolves or "leads" to a note one semitone
Leading_tone
Signalling specification for telephony
precise tone plan is a signaling specification for the public switched telephone network (PSTN) in North America. It defines the call-progress tones used
Precise_tone_plan
Topics referred to by the same term
A wolf tone is an unintended sound quality of an instrument in the violin family. Wolf tone or Wolfe Tone may also refer to: Wolf interval, ratio of pitches
Wolf_tone_(disambiguation)
1995 studio album by Ornette Coleman
Tone Dialing is an album recorded in 1995 by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time ensemble. It was released in
Tone_Dialing
ToneScript is a description syntax for the characteristics of call-progress tones. A call progress tone is a pattern of audible tones played to the caller
ToneScript
Topics referred to by the same term
True Tone may refer to: True Tone Records (US label) — a 1950s record label based in New Orleans, Louisiana True Tone Records — An Australian record label
True_Tone
Numbers assigned to tone types in tonal languages
§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. Tone numbers are numerical digits used like letters to mark the tones of a language. The number is usually placed
Tone_number
Pure audio tone at stable frequency and volume
A reference tone is a pure tone corresponding to a known frequency, and produced at a stable sound pressure level (volume), usually by specialized equipment
Reference_tone
Linguistic term
A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains neither consonants nor vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself but
Floating_tone
Swedish writer
Tone Live Schunnesson (born 17 January 1988) is a Swedish novelist and playwright. Schunnesson studied writing at Biskops Arnös författarskola. In 2016
Tone_Schunnesson
Street in Dublin, Ireland
Infobox street is being considered for merging. › Wolfe Tone Street (Irish: Sráid Wolfe Tone) is a street on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. The street
Wolfe_Tone_Street,_Dublin
Irish rebel music band
The Wolfe Tones are an Irish folk and ballad group, famous for performing rebel songs, historical ballads, and Traditional Irish music with strong nationalist
The_Wolfe_Tones
Post-tonal music compositional technique
The tone clock, and its related compositional theory tone-clock theory, is a post-tonal music composition technique, developed by composers Peter Schat
Tone_clock
Yugoslav slalom canoeist (born 1951)
Antun "Tone" Hočevar (born 4 April 1951 in Ljubljana) is a Yugoslav retired slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. He finished
Tone_Hočevar
Romanization scheme for Standard Chinese
coda (final vowel or consonant). Diacritics are used to indicate the four tones found in Standard Chinese, though these are often omitted in various contexts
Pinyin
Guitar amplifier manufacturer
Tone King is a manufacturer of vacuum tube guitar amplifiers and stand-alone attenuators located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Tone King was founded by
Tone_King
In music, changing tones (also called double neighboring tones and neighbor group) consists of two consecutive non-chord tones. The first moves in one
Changing_tones
Sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call or text message
produce a warbling, chirping, or other sounds. Variations of the cadence or tone of the ring signal, called distinctive ringing, can be used to indicate characteristics
Ringtone
Slovenian diplomat (born 1966)
Tone Kajzer (born 9 July 1966) is a Slovenian diplomat who has served as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since 2026. Kajzer was born on 9 July
Tone_Kajzer
Topics referred to by the same term
Common tone may refer to: Common tone (chord) Common tone (scale) Common tone diminished seventh chord Common chord (disambiguation) This disambiguation
Common_tone
Regular beats of a single tone
Isochronic tones are regular beats of a single tone that are used alongside monaural beats and binaural beats in the process called brainwave entrainment
Isochronic_tones
Type of physical therapy
toning, or facial exercise, is a type of cosmetic procedure or physical therapy tool which alters facial contours by means of increasing muscle tone and
Facial_toning
British-Nigerian author and content creator
Toni Omotola Adenlé Listen (born 1989), known professionally as Toni Tone, is a British-Nigerian author, content creator and host of Toni Told Me. She
Toni_Tone
Quality of a musical note or sound or tone
ˈtæ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes
Timbre
Topics referred to by the same term
Tone Poems may refer to: Symphonic poem, a form of orchestral composition 3 Tondikter (3 Tone Poems), by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Tone poems (Strauss)
Tone_Poems
Constraints in Classical Chinese poetry
four tones of Middle Chinese—level (平), rising (上), departing (去), and entering (入) tones—are categorized into level (平) tones and oblique (仄) tones. Tones
Tone_pattern
In-band signaling for broadcast radio automation
A subaudible tone is a tone that is used to trigger an automated event at a radio station. A subaudible tone is within the audible frequency range; however
Subaudible_tone
Tone in an artistic context refers to the light and dark values used to render a realistic object, or to create an abstract composition. When using pastel
Artistic_tone
Imitation of a sound of the bell
A bell tone is a musical technique in which a voice or instrument is made to imitate the sound of a bell. It is characterized by a strong opening articulation
Bell_tone
A cue tone is a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action. In broadcast networks, a DTMF cue tone or subaudible tone was traditionally
Cue_tone
1970 studio album by Organisation
Tone Float is the only album by the German band Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (Organisation). Organisation included as members
Tone_Float
TONE
TONE
Surname or Lastname
English, Welsh, and Irish (of Norman origin)
English, Welsh, and Irish (of Norman origin) : from Old French pourcel ‘piglet’ (Latin porcellus, a diminutive of porcus ‘pig’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd, or a nickname, perhaps affectionate in tone. This is a common surname in Ireland, having become established there in the 12th century.
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Beautiful; Different; Hearing; Veidik Text; Expert in Vedas; Intelligent; Different in All; A Musical Tone; Knowledge of Ved
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the medieval personal name Ton(e)y, a reduced form of Anthony.
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Tone; Lyric
Male
English
Pet form of English Anthony, possibly TONEY means "invaluable."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Tone continued, Not final
Boy/Male
Hindu
Chanting of hymns, Mantras in low tone
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Darrington in West Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Darni(n)tone ‘settlement (Old English tÅ«n) associated with (a man called) DÄ“ornÅth’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Taunton in Somerset, Taunton Farm in Coulsdon, Surrey, or Tanton in North Yorkshire. The Somerset place name was originally a combination of a Celtic river name (now the Tone, possibly meaning ‘roaring stream’) + Old English tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The Surrey name is possibly from Old English tÄn ‘branch’, ‘stalk’ + tÅ«n, while Tanton was named in Old English as ‘settlement (tÅ«n) on the Tame’, another Celtic river name.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Tones, Self shining in Sanskrit
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Good Listener; Musical Tone
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a minor place, probably one of two in Devon, so called from the possessive form of the Middle English personal name or surname Lugg (from Old English Lugga) + Middle English tune, tone ‘settlement’ (Old English tūn).
Girl/Female
Tamil
Tones, Self shining in Sanskrit
Boy/Male
American, British, Christian, English
Praiseworthy
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
A Musical Tone
Boy/Male
Tamil
Chanting of hymns, Mantras in low tone
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
A Musical Tone
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Town.Japanese : variously written, usually with characters meaning either ‘sword’ or ‘benefit’ and ‘root’, the latter version being used for the name of the Tone River, which was formerly the boundary between the provinces of Musashi (now TÅkyÅ and Saitama prefecture) and ShimÅsa (now Chiba prefecture), until it was diverted in early modern times to become the northern boundary of Chiba. Some families may have taken their name from the name of the river.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Kanimoli | கநிமோலீ
Speaks with a gentle tone
Kanimoli | கநிமோலீ
Male
English
Pet form of English Anthony, possibly TONE means "invaluable."Â
TONE
TONE
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Possessed with a Glow; Bright
Girl/Female
Australian, Latin
Sabine; The Sabines were Tribe Living in Central Italy
Boy/Male
Arabic, Indian, Tamil
Heart; Conscience
Girl/Female
Arabic
Prophet Name
Girl/Female
French American
Dearly loved; Beloved. From the Old French Amee, which derives from the Latin amatus meaning loved.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Armlet
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Hunter
Boy/Male
British, English, Irish
Welshman; From Wales
Girl/Female
Muslim
Rich, Paper-made
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
One who is in Everyone
TONE
TONE
TONE
TONE
TONE
n.
A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
n.
Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
v. t.
To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
v. t.
To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
a.
High in tone or sound.
n.
Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
v. t.
To utter with an affected tone.
a.
Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.
imp. & p. p.
of Tone
n.
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.
n.
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
n.
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.
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.
v. i.
To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
n.
The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
n.
A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
n.
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.
a.
Having no tone; unmusical.
n.
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.