a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages | a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass |
the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
a steady sound without overtones | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
a musical interval of two semitones | a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin |
the quality of a person's voice | a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | relative magnitude |
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it |
the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | an ordered reference standard |