n.

the quality of a person's voice

"he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"

同義詞：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"

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

"the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

同義詞：timbretimberquality

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

"a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"

同義詞：spiritfeelfeelingflavorflavourlooksmell

a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color

同義詞：shadetinttincture

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

同義詞：notemusical note

a steady sound without overtones

"they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"

同義詞：pure tone

the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

同義詞：tonicitytonus

a musical interval of two semitones

同義詞：whole tonestepwhole step

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"

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Physiologic responses to loud tones in Israeli patients with posttraumatic stress disorder
Phase-Locked Response to Low-Frequency Tones in Single Auditory Nerve Fibers of the Squirrel Monkey
Human auditory steady-state responses to tones independently modulated in both frequency and amplitude.
Intelligent medium access for mobile ad hoc networks with busy tones and power control
Intelligent medium access for mobile ad hoc networks with busy tones and power control
Human auditory steady-state responses to amplitude-modulated tones: phase and latency measurements.
Auditory event-related dynamics of the EEG spectrum and effects of exposure to tones
Use of the discrete fourier transform in the measurement of frequencies and levels of tones
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