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tools

/tuːl/

US pronunciation
American sound/tuːl/
tools
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Long vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> tools

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) ကိရိယာ

Full entry

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.

More examples
  • 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.
Synonyms
tenor, quality, manner, character, attitude, tendency, nature, accent, add fuel to fire, air, ambiance, approach, aspect, atmosphere, blend, cast, chalk, color, coloration, condition, current, drift, effect, elasticity, emphasis, enameled, enameling, expression, fashion, feel, fine tune, force, frame, fresco, grain, habit, harmonize, health, healthiness, hue, humor, inflect, inflection, intonation, lacquering, make firm, mind, mode, modulate, modulation, mood, movement, note, pigmented, pinken, pitch, resiliency, resonance, rouged, shade, sound, spirit, state of things, strain, strength, strengthen, stress, style, temper, timbre, tinge, tint, tonality, tone up, toned, tonicity, toning, tonus, trend, value, vein, vigor, volume
Antonyms
unimportance
Cross references
tenorqualitymannercharacterattitudetendencynatureaccentadd fuel to fireairambianceapproachaspectatmosphereblendcastchalkcolorcolorationconditioncurrentdrifteffectelasticityemphasisenameledenamelingexpression
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