Noun

• S: (n) tone (tone%1:10:01::), tone of voice (tone_of_voice%1:10:00::) (the quality of a person's voice) "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
• S: (n) tone (tone%1:07:02::) ((linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages) "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
• S: (n) timbre (timbre%1:07:00::), timber (timber%1:07:00::), quality (quality%1:07:01::), tone (tone%1:07:01::) ((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"
• S: (n) spirit (spirit%1:26:00::), tone (tone%1:26:01::), feel (feel%1:26:00::), feeling (feeling%1:26:00::), flavor (flavor%1:26:00::), flavour (flavour%1:26:00::), look (look%1:26:00::), smell (smell%1:26:00::) (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"
• S: (n) shade (shade%1:07:00::), tint (tint%1:07:00::), tincture (tincture%1:07:00::), tone (tone%1:07:00::) (a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color) "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
• S: (n) note (note%1:10:04::), musical note (musical_note%1:10:00::), tone (tone%1:10:02::) (a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound) "the singer held the note too long"
• S: (n) tone (tone%1:09:00::), pure tone (pure_tone%1:09:00::) (a steady sound without overtones) "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
• S: (n) tonicity (tonicity%1:26:00::), tonus (tonus%1:26:00::), tone (tone%1:26:02::) (the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli) "the doctor tested my tonicity"
• S: (n) tone (tone%1:10:00::), whole tone (whole_tone%1:10:00::), step (step%1:10:00::), whole step (whole_step%1:10:00::) (a musical interval of two semitones)
• S: (n) tone (tone%1:07:03::) (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"

Verb

• S: (v) tone (tone%2:32:00::), chant (chant%2:32:01::), intone (intone%2:32:04::) (utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically) "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
• S: (v) tone (tone%2:32:02::), inflect (inflect%2:32:00::), modulate (modulate%2:32:00::) (vary the pitch of one's speech)
• S: (v) tone (tone%2:30:02::) (change the color or tone of) "tone a negative"
• S: (v) tone (tone%2:30:01::) (change to a color image) "tone a photographic image"
• S: (v) tone (tone%2:29:00::), tone up (tone_up%2:29:00::), strengthen (strengthen%2:29:00::) (give a healthy elasticity to) "Let's tone our muscles"