Tone

1.

(A vocal or musical sound, its quality, one of the sounds or notes in a musical scale, style or manner of speaking or writing, spirit; general character; quality; normal, healthy condition of the body; general effect of combined colors as in a painting, tint or shade of a particular color; natural healthy functioning of bodily organs) shrill tone សូរ, tone of voice របៀបនិយាយ​ឬសរសេរ (សប្បាយ ខឹង ។ល។), (language has) tones សំឡេងខ្ពស់ទាប, picture has a dull tone ទឹកពណ៌

2.

(បច្ចេកទេស) សូរ, ឬសរសេរ (សប្បាយខឹង ។ល។)

3.

(វេជ្ជសាស្ត្រ) កំលាំងកន្ត្រាក់នៃសាច់ដុំ, សូរសំលេង

1.

~ something down បន្ថយភាពតានតឹង, ធ្វើអោយអន់, បន្ធូរ

2.

~ something up ធ្វើអោយភ្លឺចិញ្ចាចឡើង, ធ្វើអោយកាន់តែស្វាហាប់ឡើង

3.

(TRANSITIVE) (To give tone or quality to; to modify color or general effect of, as in photograph, to tune, instrument) tone it with yellow ដាក់ពណ៌បន្ថែម

• tone color
  - គុណភាពនៃសូរ
• tone language
  - សំដី (របៀបនិយាយ ឬសរសេរ)
• tone of proposal
  - គុណភាពនៃសំណើ
• tone poem
  - កាព្យមហោរី
• tone up
  - ដាក់ពណ៌អោយភ្លឺឡើង

1.

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

2.

Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

3.

A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

4.

A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

5.

The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

6.

The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

7.

A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

8.

That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

9.

Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

10.

State of mind; temper; mood.

11.

Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

12.

General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

13.

The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

14.

Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.

15.

Color quality proper; -- called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.

16.

The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture.

1.

(TRANSITIVE) To utter with an affected tone.

2.

(TRANSITIVE) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune.

3.

(TRANSITIVE) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.