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تعريف to tone في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: The manner in which speech or writing is expressed; to give a particular tone to; The one (of two)
So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake .; The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice; The shade or quality of a colour; A recitational melody; Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli; to change the colour of; The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus; 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; {n} a note, sound, accent, whine, cry, state; See Tune, v; the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"; change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"; A sound that is distinct and identifiable by its constant pitch; The tone of a sound is its particular quality. Cross could hear him speaking in low tones to Sarah. the clear tone of the bell; That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor; The middle value of a hue, obtained by adding gray to the dye; (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"; The poet's or persona's attitude in style or expression toward the subject, e g , loving, ironic, bitter, pitying, fanciful, solemn, etc Tone can also refer to the overall mood of the poem itself, in the sense of a pervading atmosphere intended to influence the readers' emotional response and foster expectations of the conclusion Sidelight: In spoken language we recognize tone by inflections of the voice and by the demeanor of the speaker; in poetry, tone is conveyed through the use of connotation, diction, figures of speech, rhythm and other elements of poetic construction (Compare Content, Form, Motif, Style, Texture); 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; A sound wave that evokes a sensation of pitch; To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment; (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome" a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" a musical interval of two semitones the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" of one's speech, varying the pitch utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again; to make (something) firmer; Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade; {i} sound, ring; atmosphere; Something that tones your body makes it firm and strong. This movement lengthens your spine and tones the spinal nerves Try these toning exercises before you start the day. finely toned muscular bodies. Tone up means the same as tone. Exercise tones up your body Although it's not strenuous exercise, you feel toned-up, supple and relaxed; 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; 1) One of several single-frequency signals at the beginning of a tape reel at the magnetic reference level that will be used to record the program 2) Any single-frequency signal or sound 3) The sound quality of an instrument's sound relative to the amount of energy present at different frequencies 4) In some synthesizers, a term meaning the audio signal that will be put out by the unit which would be similar to the sound of an instrument; Color quality proper; called also hue; change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"; A tone is a color that has been mixed with gray; Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone; The author's attitude toward the subject matter as revealed by word choice and sentence structure Thus, the tone might be critical, angry, humorous, dismissive, serious, informal or formal among others; The tone of someone's body, especially their muscles, is its degree of firmness and strength. stretch exercises that aim to improve muscle tone; of one's speech, varying the pitch utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again; The tone of a speech or piece of writing is its style and the opinions or ideas expressed in it. The spokesman said the tone of the letter was very friendly His comments to reporters were conciliatory in tone; The tone of a piece of writing is 'the attitude of the author as manifest in the language' It might be conversational, comic, serious, or melancholy The conventions of academic discourse suggest that the tone of essays should be plain, objective, and serious; a specific pitch; 1) a specific, identifiable musical sound, 2) an interval made up of two semitones; the pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese; a musical interval of two semitones; Telephone companies provided touch-tone service This service allows access to network services such as Voice Mail, Call Waiting and Data services e g access to your bank account; a musical interval of two semitones the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"; Someone's tone is a quality in their voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking. I still didn't like his tone of voice Her tone implied that her patience was limited; a sound of definite pitch; a note; A color mixed with black and white, a grayed color; the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"; of one's speech, varying the pitch; To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune; a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"; Color that has been toned down by adding its complement or gray; If you say that something lowers the tone of a place or event, you mean that it is not appropriate and makes the place or event seem less respectable. Councillors say plastic-framed windows lower the tone of the neighbourhood. Irish nationalist who helped secure Parliament's passage of the Catholic Relief Act of 1793 and planned a French invasion of Ireland (1796). tone up to improve the strength and firmness of your muscles, skin etc. In linguistics, a variation in the pitch of the voice while speaking. The term is usually applied to languages (called tone languages) in which pitch differentiates words with an identical sequences of consonants and vowels. For example, man in Mandarin Chinese may mean either "deceive" or "slow," depending on its pitch. In tone languages, what matters is not absolute pitch but the pitch of one word relative to another or how pitch changes within a word. tone poem Tone River Tone Theobald Wolfe; to harmonize, especially in colour; an interval of a major second; A color that has been neutralized by the addition of gray; Tone is the color of the sound The organ has a wide variety of sounds available The difference in the sound colors of the stops makes this variety possible; The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style Tone may be characterized as serious or ironic, sad or happy, private or public, angry or affectionate, bitter or nostalgic, or any other attitudes and feelings that human beings experience See also style; The degree of lightness or darkness in any given area of a print; also referred to as value Cold tones (bluish) and warm tones (reddish) refer to the color of the image in both black-and-white and color photographs; Shade of color in the priming, ranging from pure white to gray Linens are normally toned darker gray than cottons, and there is tonal variation from one roll to another is normal and not indicative of quality; utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"; The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture; The common musical scale is made up of two basic units of pitch difference, the tone and the semitone The multiplier for the frequency increase is approximately 1 1225; a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"; A colour that has been neutralized by the addition of grey; (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"; The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone; A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones; a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"