toneとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国用法) enPR: tōn, IPA^(key): /təʊn/
• (米国用法) enPR: tōn, IPA^(key): /toʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

名詞

tone (複数形 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.
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

     Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
   • c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope

     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

同意語

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

派生語

関連する語

動詞

tone (三人称単数 現在形 tones, 現在分詞 toning, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

同意語

• (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):

派生語

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

語源 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.

代名詞

tone

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

Further reading

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

参照

アナグラム

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

Latin

名詞

tone

1. vocative singular of tonus