【tone】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

词源1(Etymology 1)

Borrowed from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (or through Old French ton^[1]), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, and tonus.

发音(Pronunciation)

• (UK) enPR: tōn, IPA^(key): /təʊn/
• (US) enPR: tōn, IPA^(key): /toʊn/

• Audio (US)

• Rhymes: -əʊn

名词(Noun)

tone (plural tones)

1. (music) A specific pitch.
2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
5. General character, mood, or trend.

   Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

6. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
7. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

   Children often read with a tone.

8. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
   • (Can we date this quote by W. C. Bryant and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
   • (Can we date this quote by Bolingbroke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

10. The shade or quality of a colour.
    • 2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 81:

      We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average skin tones, such as black or white.

11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

    This picture has tone.

12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
13. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
14. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
15. (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
    • 1993, 8Ball (lyrics), “9 Little Millimeta Boys”, in Comin’ Out Hard:

      But nigga don't step wrong, cuz 8ball keep a tone

    • 1994, Princess Loko (lyrics), “Murda In Da 1st Degree”, in Ashes 2 Ashes, Dust 2 Dust:

      M.A.C.T.D.O.G got the tone so hoe you know it's on

    • 2011, Project Pat (lyrics), “Dollar Signs (Remix)”, in Loud pack:

      Got the tone to ya head yo life flashing right front your eyes

同义词(Synonyms)

• (an interval of a major second): whole tone

衍生词(Derived terms)

关联词(Related terms)

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)

1. (transitive) to give a particular tone to
2. (transitive) to change the colour of
3. (transitive) to make (something) firmer
4. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour
5. (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

同义词(Synonyms)

• (give a particular tone to):
• (change the colour of): color/colour, dye, paint, tint
• (make firmer): firm, firm up, tone up
• (harmonize): harmonise/harmonize
• (utter with an affected tone):

衍生词(Derived terms)

• betone
• toned
• tone down
• toner
• tone up
• tony, toney (affected tone)

翻译(Translations)

词源2(Etymology 2)

From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.

代词(Pronoun)

tone

1. (now dialectal) the one (of two)

查看更多(Further reading)

• tone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tone in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

来源参考(References)

变位词(Anagrams)

• ETNO, Eton, Note, Teno, ento-, note, teno-

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Afrikaans

名词(Noun)

tone

1. plural of toon

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Danish

词源(Etymology)

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /toːnə/, [ˈtˢoːnə]

名词(Noun)

tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)

1. tone
2. note

变化形式(Declension)

动词(Verb)

tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)

1. to sound
2. to tone
3. to tint

来源参考(References)

• “tone” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

发音(Pronunciation)

• Audio

动词(Verb)

tone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen

变位词(Anagrams)

• toen

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Latin

名词(Noun)

tone

1. vocative singular of tonus

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中古英语(Middle English)

代词(Pronoun)

tone

1. the one (of two)
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum lxiij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book X, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur[…], London: Published by David Nutt,[…], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake

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Norwegian Bokmål

词源(Etymology)

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).

名词(Noun)

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

衍生词(Derived terms)

• halvtone

来源参考(References)

• “tone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

词源(Etymology)

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /²tuːnə/

名词(Noun)

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural tonar, definite plural tonane)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

衍生词(Derived terms)

• halvtone
• tonekunst

来源参考(References)

• “tone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swahili

名词(Noun)

tone (ma class, plural matone)

1. drop