Tone

Definition

tone /tǝƱn/ n ၁။ [C] အသံ အတိမ္၊ အနက္၊ အရိွန္၊ ဩဇာစေသာ အသံ၏ အရည္အေသြး။ the ringing tones of an orator's voice ❍ a piano with an excellent tone. ၂။ [C] ေလသံ။ အသံေန 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] သေဘာသြား။ သေဘာလကၡဏာ။ 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] အေသြး။ a carpet in warm tones of brown and orange ❍ Choose a colour that matches your skin tone. ၅။ [U] (ႂကြက္သား) အေျခအေန။ good muscular tone. ၆။ [C] ( music ) (ဂီတသံစဥ္ တစ္ခုႏွင့္တစ္ခု အၾကားရိွ) ရွစ္သံတြဲ။ OCTAVE ၇။ [C] တယ္လီဖုန္းျမည္သံ။ get the dialling/ ringing/ engaged tone ❍ Please speak after the tone (eg as an instruction on an ANSWER-PHONE). ၈။ [C] ( linguistics ) တက္က်သံ။ 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 ) …အသံရိွေသာ။ silver -toned trumpets. ❏ tone-deaf adj ဂီတသံစဥ္အတက္အက်ကို ခြဲျခားႏိုင္စြမ္း မရိွေသာ။ ❏ tone sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေလသံကို) ခံသာေအာင္ ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ You'd better tone down the more outspoken passages in your article. ၂။ (ေတာက္ပ၊ ရင့္လြန္းသည္ကို) ေဖ်ာ့သည္။ tone down the reds. ❏ tone in (with sth) [ PHRV ] အေရာင္လိုက္ဖက္သည္။ The new curtains tone in beautifully with the carpet. ❏ toneless adj အတက္အက်၊ ထက္သန္မႈ၊ စိတ္ပါ ဝင္စားမႈ ကင္းေသာ၊ မထံုတက္ေသး(အသံ)။ အသံ(ေသ)။ answer in a toneless voice. ❏ tonelessly adv မထံုတက္ေသး။ ❏ tone-poem n ( music ) ဂီတသံစဥ္သက္သက္ျဖင့္ အေတြး အျမင္၊ အေၾကာင္းအရာတစ္ရပ္ကို ထင္ျမင္ခံစားႏိုင္ရန္ ေရးဖြဲ႕ထား ေသာ (သံစံုတီးဝိုင္းျဖင့္ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ရန္) ေတး။ ❏ tone sth up [ PHRV ] (ႂကြက္သားကို) က်န္းခံ့သန္စြမ္းေစ သည္။ Regular exercise tones up the muscles.

Examples

1. Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone.
2. [a tone of voice] : ‘Really?’ Simone said in a surprised tone of voice.
3. Don’t you take that tone of voice with me (=don’t speak to me so rudely)!
4. They were sitting close together
5. talking in hushed tones.
6. The positive tone of the evening had changed completely.
7. [set the tone (for something)] : The opening remarks set the tone for the rest of the interview.
8. [raise/lower the tone (of something)] : Trust you to lower the tone of the whole conversation!
9. Much of his writing has a rather strident tone to it.
10. [in tone] : Their next letter was more optimistic in tone.
11. A flute with a clear bright tone
12. I picked up the phone and just got a beeping tone.
13. The answering machine said to leave a message after the tone.
14. [the engaged tone] : I keep getting the engaged tone.
15. A tweed coat in subtle tones of purple and green
16. Her olive skin tone
17. [muscle/skin tone] : The patient’s general muscle tone is good.
18. You use a rising tone in English to indicate a question.