tonal
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈtəʊnəl/
美 /ˈtoʊnəl/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
— When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to tones or tonality.
— Songs for the family-table on Sabbaths and holidays—songs which give those various holy days tonal expression and which aim to spiritualize the meals.
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Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
— The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the episode felt for once less like a story about Prohibition and more one about a specific set of people.
- Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
- Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From tone + -al.
词源 2
From Nahuatl tōnalli (“day, day sign”).
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