Tone: alternatives and connections

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appog…

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A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below t…

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The string of a musical instrument.

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.

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See Color.

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A forked support; a crotch.

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A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

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Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

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Alt. of Harmonical

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The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the p…

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The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

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Quality or state of being mellow.

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Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.

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A single unvaried tone or sound.

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The quality or state of being nasal.

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To butt; to push with the horns.

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Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglio…

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The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.

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To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

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A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

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The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).

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of Ring

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The state or quality of being rotu/; roundness; sphericity; circularity.

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The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.

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A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.

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A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

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obs. p. p. of Shake.

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The quality or state of being shrill.

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The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

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The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

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The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.

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Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modifi…

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The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.

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To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstructi…

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To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

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A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.

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The state of being vibrant; resonance.

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The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphe…

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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of Color

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See Color.

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a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"

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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…

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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the m…

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The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

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Outer.

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To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.

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To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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To thunder.

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To thunder.

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To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

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To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

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The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.

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The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.

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That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

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That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

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Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstructi…

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Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstructi…

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The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

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(physics) the six kinds of quarks

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To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

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To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

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To butt; to push with the horns.

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The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate ma…

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Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

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A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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See 1st Timber.

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A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

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A slight coloring.

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The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

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Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.

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