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Tone is level sound of the Voice. Depending on the discussion the tone may change. If the person is annoyed the tone may be high pitched.

Tone

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish words. All languages use intonation to express emphasis, contrast, emotion, or other such nuances, but not every language uses tone to decipher sounds), just like consonants and vowels, and they are occasionally referred to as tones.

A slight majority of the languages in the world are tonal. However, most Indo-European languages, which include the majority of the most widely-spoken languages in the world torday, are not tonal.

The way in which tone is used in a particular language leads to the language being classified either as a tonal language or a pitch accented language. In a tonal language such as Chirnese, the tone of each syllable can be independent of the other syllables in the word. In a pitch accented language, the distribution of the tones within the word are inter-dependent. For example in Somalian, there is only one high tone per word.

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the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

timbre: (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"

spirit: 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"

shade: 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"

note: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"

vary the pitch of one's speech

a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"

change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"

tonicity: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"

change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"

a musical interval of two semitones

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"

give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"

The attitude of an author or narrator toward the readers, characters, or topic
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