Synonyms of the word tone


TONEAMBIANCE - AMBIENCE - ATMOSPHERE - CHANT - COLOR - COLORING - COLORIZE - COLOUR - COLOURING - COLOURISE - COLOURIZE - DELIVERY - DISCOLOR - DISCOLOUR - EXERCISE - FEEL - FEELING - FLAVOR - FLAVOUR - INFLECT - INTERVAL - INTONE - LOOK - MODULATE - MOUTH - NOTE - PITCH - QUALITY - SHADE - SMELL - SOUND - SPEAK - SPEECH - SPIRIT - STEP - STRENGTHEN - TALK - TAUTNESS - TENSENESS - TENSION - TENSITY - TIMBER - TIMBRE - TINCTURE - TINT - TONICITY - TONUS - UTTER - VERBALISE - VERBALIZE

tone

  • n. (music) A specific pitch.
  • n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  • n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  • n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  • n. General character, mood, or trend.
  • n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  • n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
  • n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  • n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
  • n. The shade or quality of a colour.
  • n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
  • n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
  • n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
  • n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  • v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
  • v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
  • v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
  • v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
  • v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
  • pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

ambiance

  • n. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
  • n. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

ambience

  • n. Alternative spelling of ambiance.

atmosphere

  • n. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
  • n. The air in a particular place.
  • n. (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
  • n. A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm).

chant

  • v. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
  • v. To sing or intone sacred text.
  • v. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
  • n. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
  • n. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms,…
  • n. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
  • n. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

color

  • n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
  • n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  • n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
  • n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
  • n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
  • n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
  • n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
  • n. The system of color television.
  • n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  • n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
  • n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
  • n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  • n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  • n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
  • n. An appearance of right or authority.
  • n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
  • adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
  • v. To give something color.
  • v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
  • v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  • v. To affect without completely changing.
  • v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
  • v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

coloring

  • v. present participle of color.
  • n. An act or process which applies color.
  • n. The appearance as to color.
  • n. A disguise or discoloration.

colorize

  • v. To add color to.
  • v. (photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as…

colour

  • n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
  • n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  • n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
  • n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
  • n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
  • n. The system of colour television.
  • n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
  • n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
  • n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  • n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
  • n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
  • n. An appearance of right or authority.
  • n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
  • adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
  • v. To give something colour.
  • v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
  • v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  • v. To affect without completely changing.
  • v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
  • v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

colouring

  • n. (Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of coloring.
  • v. present participle of colour.
  • v. (Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of coloring.

colourise

  • v. (Britain) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
  • v. (Britain, photography, cinematography) Alternative form of colorize (to convert black and white media…

colourize

  • v. (Britain) Alternative spelling of colorize and colourise.

delivery

  • n. The act of conveying something.
  • n. The item which has been conveyed.
  • n. The act of giving birth.
  • n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • n. The manner of speaking.
  • n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
  • n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
  • n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

discolor

  • v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

  • v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

exercise

  • n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
  • n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
  • n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
  • n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
  • n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
  • v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
  • v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
  • v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
  • v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

feel

  • v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
  • v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
  • v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
  • v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
  • n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  • n. A vague mental impression.
  • n. An act of fondling.
  • n. A vague understanding.
  • n. An intuitive ability.
  • n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
  • pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

feeling

  • adj. Emotionally sensitive.
  • adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
  • n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
  • n. Emotion; impression.
  • n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
  • n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
  • n. Intuition.
  • n. An opinion, an attitude.
  • v. present participle of feel.

flavor

  • n. American standard spelling of flavour.
  • v. American standard spelling of flavour.

flavour

  • n. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
  • n. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
  • n. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
  • n. The characteristic quality of something.
  • n. (informal) A kind or type.
  • n. (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types…
  • n. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
  • v. (transitive) To add flavouring to something.

inflect

  • v. (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
  • v. (transitive, music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

interval

  • n. A distance in space.
  • n. A period of time.
  • n. (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to…
  • n. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
  • n. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
  • n. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.

intone

  • v. (transitive) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  • v. (transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice;…
  • v. (intransitive) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

look

  • v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
  • v. To appear, to seem.
  • v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
  • v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
  • v. To face or present a view.
  • v. To expect or anticipate.
  • v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
  • v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
  • v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
  • v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
  • interj. Pay attention.
  • n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
  • n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
  • n. A facial expression.

modulate

  • v. (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt.
  • v. (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument.
  • v. (transitive, electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to…
  • v. (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

note

  • n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
  • n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
  • n. (music, heading) A sound.
  • n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
  • n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
  • n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
  • n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
  • v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
  • v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
  • v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
  • v. (transitive) To annotate.
  • v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
  • v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
  • n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
  • n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

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.

quality

  • n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
  • n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
  • n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
  • n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
  • n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
  • n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
  • adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

shade

  • n. (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
  • n. (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
  • n. (countable) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
  • n. (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
  • n. (figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
  • n. A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning.
  • n. (archaic or literary) A ghost.
  • n. (archaic) A creature that is partially human and partially angel.
  • n. (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and…
  • n. (uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.
  • v. (transitive) To shield from light.
  • v. (transitive) To alter slightly.
  • v. (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
  • v. (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
  • v. To surpass by a narrow margin.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

smell

  • n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals,…
  • n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
  • v. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or…
  • v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
  • v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
  • v. To detect or perceive; often with out.
  • v. (obsolete) To give heed to.

sound

  • adj. Healthy.
  • adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
  • adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
  • adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
  • adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
  • n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
  • n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
  • n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  • v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
  • v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
  • n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
  • n. The air bladder of a fish.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  • v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
  • v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
  • n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
  • n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

speak

  • v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
  • v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  • v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
  • v. (transitive) To utter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
  • v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
  • n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
  • n. Speach, conversation.
  • n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

speech

  • n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
  • n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  • n. A style of speaking.
  • n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
  • n. A dialect or language.
  • n. Talk; mention; rumour.

spirit

  • n. The collective souls of man or another entity.
  • n. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
  • n. Enthusiasm.
  • n. The manner or style of something.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term…
  • n. Energy; ardour.
  • n. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or…
  • n. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in…
  • n. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • n. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  • n. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
  • n. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according…
  • n. (dyeing) stannic chloride.
  • v. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
  • v. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

step

  • n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
  • n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
  • n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
  • n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
  • n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
  • n. A small space or distance.
  • n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  • n. A gait; manner of walking.
  • n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
  • n. (plural) A walk; passage.
  • n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
  • n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
  • n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
  • n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  • n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
  • n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
  • n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
  • n. (slang) A stepsibling.
  • v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
  • v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
  • v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

strengthen

  • v. (transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify;…
  • v. (transitive) To animate; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to fix in resolution; to hearten.
  • v. (transitive) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow strong or stronger.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

tautness

  • n. The property of being taut.

tenseness

  • n. The characteristic of being tense.
  • n. (phonetics) A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages,…

tension

  • n. Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each…
  • n. Psychological state of being tense.
  • n. A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
  • n. (physics, engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
  • n. (physics, engineering) Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions…
  • n. (physics, engineering) Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension,…
  • v. To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.

tensity

  • n. The quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.

timber

  • n. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
  • n. (Britain, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  • n. (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy…
  • n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  • n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards;…
  • n. (music) A misspelling of timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound or tone, independent of its pitch…
  • interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
  • v. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
  • v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
  • v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
  • v. To surmount as a timber does.

timbre

  • n. The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.
  • n. (heraldry) The crest on a coat of arms.

tincture

  • n. A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.
  • n. A tint, or an added colour.
  • n. (heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
  • n. An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
  • n. (humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
  • n. An essential characteristic.
  • n. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the…
  • n. A slight taste superadded to any substance.
  • n. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
  • v. to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.
  • v. (figuratively) to tinge; to taint.
  • v. To soak (an organic substance) in alcohol or another liquid to produce a tincture.

tint

  • n. A slight coloring.
  • n. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast…
  • n. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  • n. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.
  • contract. (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't.

tonicity

  • n. (medicine) The normal presence of tone or tension in a muscle or organ; tonus.
  • n. (sciences) The ability of a solution to exert an osmotic pressure upon a membrane.

tonus

  • n. (biology) tonicity; tone.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

  • v. To speak or to use words to express.
  • v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

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