delivery vs tone
tone vs deliverydelivery and tone both are nouns.
delivery is not a verb while tone is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| delivery | Yes | No | No | No |
| tone | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
tone is a hyponym of
delivery; that is, tone is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
delivery:
- delivery: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- tone: the quality of a person's voice
Other hyponyms of delivery include
address, catch, tongue, shibboleth, tone of voice, elocution, inflection, prosody, inflection, modulation.
| delivery (noun) | tone (noun) |
|---|---|
| recovery or preservation from loss or danger | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
| the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
| the act of delivering a child | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages |
| the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | a steady sound without overtones |
| your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | a musical interval of two semitones |
| the event of giving birth | the quality of a person's voice |
| a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | |
| the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | |
| the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli |
| delivery (verb) | tone (verb) |
|---|---|
| give a healthy elasticity to | |
| change to a color image | |
| change the color or tone of | |
| utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | |
| vary the pitch of one's speech |
Words related to "delivery"
- C-section
- abdominal delivery
- accouchement
- act
- address
- airdrop
- bailment
- balk
- ball
- baseball
- baseball game
- beanball
- beaner
- bender
- birth
- breaking ball
- breech birth
- breech delivery
- breech presentation
- bringing
- bullet
- caesarean
- caesarean delivery
- caesarean section
- caesarian
- caesarian delivery
- caesarian section
- catch
- cesarean
- cesarean delivery
- cesarean section
- cesarian
- cesarian section
- change-of-pace
- change-of-pace ball
- change-up
- childbearing
- childbirth
- consignment
- conveyance
- conveyance of title
- conveyancing
- conveying
- curve
- curve ball
- deed
- deliver
- deliverance
- duster
- elocution
- expressive style
- fastball
- forceps delivery
- handing over
- heater
- human action
- human activity
- hummer
- inflection
- knuckleball
- knuckler
- legal transfer
- lifesaving
- livery
- manner of speaking
- midwifery
- modulation
- nascence
- nascency
- nativity
- obstetrical delivery
- off-speed pitch
- overhand pitch
- paralanguage
- paralinguistic communication
- passage
- passed ball
- pitch
- post
- prosody
- reclamation
- recovery
- redemption
- reformation
- rescue
- retrieval
- salvage
- salvation
- saving
- screwball
- search and rescue mission
- service
- service of process
- serving
- shibboleth
- sinker
- smoke
- speech
- spitball
- spitter
- strike
- style
- submarine ball
- submarine pitch
- surrender
- throw
- tone
- tone of voice
- tongue
- transfer
- transferral
- transport
- transportation
- vaginal birth
- wild pitch
Words related to "tone"
- Hollywood
- Zeitgeist
- acciaccatura
- ambiance
- ambience
- appoggiatura
- atmosphere
- auditory sensation
- blue note
- catatonia
- chant
- chord
- color
- color in
- coloration
- coloring
- colorise
- colorize
- colour
- colour in
- colouration
- colouring
- colourise
- colourize
- crotchet
- delivery
- demisemiquaver
- discolor
- discolour
- dominant
- eighth note
- exercise
- feel
- feeling
- flavor
- flavour
- grace note
- half note
- harmonic
- hemidemisemiquaver
- hypertonia
- hypertonicity
- hypertonus
- hypotonia
- hypotonicity
- hypotonus
- inflect
- interval
- intonate
- intone
- keynote
- leading tone
- linguistics
- look
- manner of speaking
- mediant
- mellowness
- metallicity
- middle C
- minim
- modulate
- monotone
- mouth
- muscle
- muscle tone
- muscular tissue
- muscular tonus
- music
- musical interval
- musical notation
- musical note
- musical scale
- myotonia
- nasality
- note
- passing note
- passing tone
- pedal
- pedal point
- pitch
- plangency
- pure tone
- quality
- quarter note
- quaver
- register
- resonance
- reverberance
- richness
- ringing
- rotundity
- roundness
- scale
- semibreve
- semiquaver
- shade
- shake
- shrillness
- sixteenth note
- sixty-fourth note
- smell
- sonority
- sonorousness
- sound
- sound property
- speak
- speech
- spirit
- step
- strengthen
- stridence
- stridency
- subdominant
- submediant
- subtonic
- supertonic
- talk
- tautness
- tenseness
- tension
- tensity
- thirty-second note
- timber
- timbre
- tincture
- tinge
- tint
- tonal
- tone of voice
- tone up
- toner
- tonic
- tonicity
- tonus
- trill
- undertone
- utter
- verbalise
- verbalize
- vibrancy
- whole note
- whole step
- whole tone
- work out
© WordCmp.com 2024,
CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.