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tone
A	noun
	1	shade, tint, tincture, tone
			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"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚visual property ╚color; colour; coloring; colouring ╚shade, tint, tincture, tone ╚undertone; tinge
	2	tone
			(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚sound property ╚pitch ╚tone
	3	timbre, timber, quality, tone
			(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"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚sound property ╚timbre, timber, quality, tone ╚register ╚shrillness; stridence; stridency ╚plangency; resonance; reverberance; ringing; sonorousness; sonority; vibrancy ╚nasality ╚fullness; mellowness; richness ╚harshness; roughness ╚color; colour; coloration; colouration ╚resonance
	4	tone
			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 gathe
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚tone
	5	tone, pure tone
			a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚process; cognitive process; mental process; operation; cognitive operation ╚basic cognitive process ╚perception ╚sensation; sense experience; sense impression; sense datum ╚sound; auditory sensation ╚tone, pure tone ╚harmonic
	6	tone, whole tone, step, whole step
			a musical interval of two semitones
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing ╚notation; notational system ╚musical notation ╚interval; musical interval ╚tone, whole tone, step, whole step
	7	note, musical note, tone
			a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing ╚notation; notational system ╚musical notation ╚note, musical note, tone ╚passing note; passing tone ╚chord ╚middle C ╚trill; shake ╚pedal point; pedal ╚subtonic; leading tone ╚submediant ╚dominant ╚subdominant ╚mediant ╚supertonic ╚tonic; keynote
	8	tone, tone of voice
			the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚expressive style; style ╚manner of speaking; speech; delivery ╚tone, tone of voice ╚undertone ╚note
	9	spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
			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"
		Category Tree: state ╚condition; status ╚atmosphere; ambiance; ambience ╚spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell ╚Zeitgeist ╚Hollywood
	10	tonicity, tonus, tone
			the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"
		Category Tree: state ╚condition; status ╚tension; tensity; tenseness; tautness ╚tonicity, tonus, tone ╚hypotonia; hypotonus; hypotonicity ╚hypertonia; hypertonus; hypertonicity ╚myotonia ╚muscular tonus; muscle tone ╚catatonia
B	verb
	1	tone, tone up, strengthen
			give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"
		Category Tree: exercise; work out ╚tone, tone up, strengthen
	2	tone
			change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚color; colorize; colorise; colourise; colourize; colour; color in; colour in ╚tone
	3	tone
			change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"
		Category Tree: change ╚discolor; discolour; colour; color ╚tone
	4	tone, inflect, modulate
			of one's speech, varying the pitch
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚communicate; intercommunicate ╚talk; speak; utter; mouth; verbalize; verbalise ╚tone, inflect, modulate
	5	tone, chant, intone
			utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚communicate; intercommunicate ╚talk; speak; utter; mouth; verbalize; verbalise ╚tone, chant, intone

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