tools
/tuːl/
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tone /tǝƱn/ n
၁။ [C] အသံ အတိမ်၊ အနက်၊ အရှိန်၊ ဩဇာစသော အသံ၏ အရည်အသွေး။ the ringing tones of an orator's voice ❍ a piano with an excellent tone.
၂။ [C] လေသံ။ အသံနေ အသံထား။ speak in an angry/ an impatient/ an aggrieved tone ❍ a tone of command/ reproach/ regret ❍ People spoke in hushed tones. ❍ Don't speak to me in that tone (of voice) (eg in that unpleasant or critical way).
၃။ [sing] သဘောသွား။ သဘောလက္ခဏာ။ အလား။ The overall tone of the book is gently nostalgic. ❍ She set the tone for/of the meeting with a firm statement of company policy. ❍ His jokes were quite funny but they did lower the tone (of the occasion) somewhat.
၄။ [C] အသွေး။ a carpet in warm tones of brown and orange ❍ Choose a colour that matches your skin tone.
၅။ [U] (ကြွက်သား) အခြေအနေ။ good muscular tone.
၆။ [C] (music ) (ဂီတသံစဉ် တစ်ခုနှင့်တစ်ခု အကြားရှိ) ရှစ်သံတွဲ။ OCTAVE
၇။ [C] တယ်လီဖုန်းမြည်သံ။ get the dialling/ ringing/ engaged tone ❍ Please speak after the tone (eg as an instruction on an ANSWER-PHONE).
၈။ [C] (linguistics ) တက်ကျသံ။ In ‘Are you ill?’ there is usually a rising tone on ‘ill’, while in ‘He's ill’ there is usually a falling tone on ‘ill’.
❏ -toned (forming compound adjs ) …အသံရှိသော။ silver -toned trumpets.
❏ tone-deaf adj ဂီတသံစဉ်အတက်အကျကို ခွဲခြားနိုင်စွမ်း မရှိသော။
❏ tone sth down [PHRV ]
၁။ (လေသံကို) ခံသာအောင် လျှော့သည်။ You'd better tone down the more outspoken passages in your article.
၂။ (တောက်ပ၊ ရင့်လွန်းသည်ကို) ဖျော့သည်။ tone down the reds.
❏ tone in (with sth) [PHRV ] အရောင်လိုက်ဖက်သည်။ The new curtains tone in beautifully with the carpet.
❏ toneless adj အတက်အကျ၊ ထက်သန်မှု၊ စိတ်ပါ ဝင်စားမှု ကင်းသော၊ မထုံတက်သေး(အသံ)။ အသံ(သေ)။ answer in a toneless voice.
❏ tonelessly adv မထုံတက်သေး။
❏ tone-poem n (music ) ဂီတသံစဉ်သက်သက်ဖြင့် အတွေး အမြင်၊ အကြောင်းအရာတစ်ရပ်ကို ထင်မြင်ခံစားနိုင်ရန် ရေးဖွဲ့ထား သော (သံစုံတီးဝိုင်းဖြင့် သရုပ်ဖော်ရန်) တေး။
❏ tone sth up [PHRV ] (ကြွက်သားကို) ကျန်းခံ့သန်စွမ်းစေ သည်။ Regular exercise tones up the muscles.
- Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone.
- [a tone of voice] : ‘Really?’ Simone said in a surprised tone of voice.
- Don’t you take that tone of voice with me (=don’t speak to me so rudely)!
- They were sitting close together, talking in hushed tones.
- The positive tone of the evening had changed completely.
- [set the tone (for something)] : The opening remarks set the tone for the rest of the interview.
- [raise/lower the tone (of something)] : Trust you to lower the tone of the whole conversation!
- Much of his writing has a rather strident tone to it.
- [in tone] : Their next letter was more optimistic in tone.
- A flute with a clear bright tone
- I picked up the phone and just got a beeping tone.
- The answering machine said to leave a message after the tone.
- [the engaged tone] : I keep getting the engaged tone.
- A tweed coat in subtle tones of purple and green
- Her olive skin tone
- [muscle/skin tone] : The patient’s general muscle tone is good.
- You use a rising tone in English to indicate a question.
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