Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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monotone | Yes | Yes | No | No |
tone | Yes | No | Yes | No |
monotone (noun) | tone (noun) |
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an unchanging intonation | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
(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 |
monotone (adjective) | tone (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 |
monotone (verb) | tone (verb) |
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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 |