musical note vs monotone

monotone vs musical note

musical note and monotone both are nouns.

musical note is not an adjective while monotone is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
musical note	Yes	No	No	No
monotone	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, monotone is a hyponym of musical note; that is, monotone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than musical note:

musical note: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
monotone: a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

Other hyponyms of musical note include keynote, tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading tone, subtonic, pedal, pedal point, shake, trill, middle C, chord, passing note, passing tone, semibreve, whole note, half note, minim, crotchet, quarter note, eighth note, quaver, semiquaver, sixteenth note, demisemiquaver, thirty-second note, hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note, acciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note, blue note.

musical note (noun)	monotone (noun)
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound	an unchanging intonation
	a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

musical note (adjective)	monotone (adjective)
	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

Difference between musical note and monotone

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