Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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keynote | Yes | No | Yes | No |
tone | Yes | No | Yes | No |
keynote (noun) | tone (noun) |
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a fundamental or central idea | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
(music) the first note of a diatonic scale | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
the principal theme in a speech or literary work | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages |
the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | |
a steady sound without overtones | |
a musical interval of two semitones | |
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 |
keynote (verb) | tone (verb) |
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set the keynote of | give a healthy elasticity to |
give the keynote address to (an audience) | change to a color image |
change the color or tone of | |
utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | |
vary the pitch of one's speech |