Synonyms of the word

tenor

• n. (music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
• n. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
• n. (archaic, music) Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor…
• n. Tone, as of a conversation.
• n. (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
• n. (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
• n. (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
• n. Stamp; character; nature.
• n. (law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which…
• n. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport;…
• adj. Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

high

• adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
• adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
• adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
• adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
• adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
• adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality…
• adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
• adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing…
• adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
• adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
• adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haugty, boastful, proud.
• adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
• adj. Large, great (in quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
• adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations…
• adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
• adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
• adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century)…
• adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
• adv. In or to an elevated position.
• adv. In or at a great value.
• adv. In a pitch of great frequency.
• n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
• n. A drug that gives such a high.
• n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
• n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
• n. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
• n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
• v. (obsolete) To rise.
• n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.
• v. To hie; to hasten.

high-pitched

• adj. Of a sound, having a comparatively high pitch.

meaning

• n. The symbolic value of something.
• n. The significance of a thing.
• n. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
• n. (obsolete) Intention.
• v. present participle of mean.
• adj. Having a (specified) intention.
• adj. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

singer

• n. A person who sings, often professionally.
• n. (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure…
• n. A person who, or device which, singes.
• n. A machine for singeing cloth.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

vocaliser

• n. Alternative form of vocalizer.

vocalist

• n. A singer; a person who likes to sing.

vocalizer

• n. One who vocalizes.