tone

名词 n. 动词 v. 代词 pron.
中文释义
英 /ˈtəʊn/|[ˈtʰəʊ̯n]    美 /ˈtoʊ̯n/|[ˈtʰoʊ̯n]|/ˈtɔʊ̯n/|[ˈtʰɔʊ̯n]|/ˈtəʉ̯n/|[ˈtʰəʉ̯n]|/ˈtɐ̞ʉn/|[ˈtʰɐ̞ʉn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A specific pitch.
  2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  3. (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  5. The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
  6. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice. dated
    — Children often read with a tone.
  7. The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
    — Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.
  8. State of mind; temper; mood. obsolete
    — c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.
  9. The shade or quality of a colour.
    — We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average skin tones, such as black or white.
  10. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
    — This picture has tone.
  11. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
  12. The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  13. Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  14. a gun slang
    — But nigga don't step wrong, cuz 8ball keep a tone
  15. The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.). figuratively
    — Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
  16. The quality of being respectable or admirable. figuratively
    — "I am going to raise the tone of the business. That's wot I want you for. To raise the tone of the business."
动词 v.
  1. to give a particular tone to transitive
  2. to change the colour of transitive
  3. to make (something) firmer transitive
  4. to utter with an affected tone. transitive
代词 pron.
  1. the one (of two) dialectal

词形变化

tones plural tones present,singular,third-person toning participle,present toned participle,past toned past

词汇关系

衍生词
allotone basitony checked tone combination tone comfort tone contour tone demitone departing tone dialling tone dial tone ditone downtone dual tone multi-frequency duotone earth tone eigentone engaged tone entering tone equitone escape tone falling tone flexatone floating tone fuzz tone fuzztone gammatone goldtone halftone half-tone half tone hemitonic intertone jewel tone leading tone level tone meantone microtone middletone midtone mistone mosstone multitone muscle tone neighbor tone neutral tone non-harmonic tone oblique tone overtone paratone passing tone pentatone polytone quadtone quarter tone quarter-tone realtone reorder tone retone ring tone rising tone room tone ru tone screentone semitone serotonin sesquitone set the tone Shepard tone sidetone silvertone skintone skin tone subtone Tartini tone tendency tone tonable tonearm tone arm tonebar tone bar tone-bearing unit tone cluster tone color tone-deafly tone dialing tone dialling tone hole tone indicator toneless tonelike tone mapping tone mark tone meeting tone number tone of voice tonepad tone painting tone poem tone police tone policing tone sandhi tone scale tone tag tone terracing tonewheel tonewood tonification tonify tonology tonous touchtone touch-tone touch-tone dialing touch-tone dialling tri-tone tritone truetone twelve-tone twelve-tone technique two-tone undertone video dial tone whole-tone scale wolf tone betone toned tone down tone in toner tone up tone with tony toney
相关词
atonal diatonic intonation intone monotone ringtone tonal tonality tone-deaf tone-deafness toneme tonic tonicity tune

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, tonos, and tonus.
词源 2
From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.
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