tone vs atmosphere

atmosphere vs tone

tone and atmosphere both are nouns.

tone is a verb but atmosphere is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tone	Yes	No	Yes	No
atmosphere	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, atmosphere is a hypernym of tone; that is, atmosphere is a word with a broader meaning than tone:

tone: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
atmosphere: a particular environment or surrounding influence

Other hypernyms of tone include ambiance, ambience.

tone (noun)	atmosphere (noun)
a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color	a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)	the mass of air surrounding the Earth
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages	the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author	a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
a steady sound without overtones	the weather or climate at some place
a musical interval of two semitones	a particular environment or surrounding influence
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

tone (verb)	atmosphere (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

Difference between tone and atmosphere

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