Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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monotone | Yes | Yes | No | No |
intonation | Yes | No | No | No |
monotone (noun) | intonation (noun) |
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an unchanging intonation | the act of singing in a monotonous tone |
a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong |
the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | |
rise and fall of the voice pitch |
monotone (adjective) | intonation (adjective) |
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of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | |
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch |