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Multi-word Results
| dial tone |
the steady hum or buzzing sound in a telephone receiver showing that the line is open and a number may be dialed or entered. |
| earth tone |
any of the muted colors found in nature, such as beige, gray, or moss green. |
| partial tone |
in music, any of the pure tones that make up a complex tone; harmonic. |
| quarter tone |
in music, an interval equal to one half of a semitone. |
| tone arm |
the pivoting arm on a phonograph that holds the needle. |
| tone cluster |
a group of notes close in pitch to each other played simultaneously, as on a keyboard or by several instrumentalists. |
| tone color |
the characteristic quality of sound from an instrument or voice; timbre. |
| tone control |
on an amplifier, a manually controlled device that regulates the intensity of high and low frequencies. |
| tone down |
to make less harsh, loud, or bright. |
| tone language |
a language, such as Chinese, Swedish, or Bantu, in which the pitch or tone contour of a word helps to distinguish its meaning from that of another word that otherwise sounds like it; tonal language. |
| tone poem |
see "symphonic poem." |
| tone row |
a series of tones, arranged in an arbitrary order with no duplications, used in serial music; twelve-tone series. |
| tone-deaf |
unable to distinguish differences in musical pitch. |
| twelve-tone |
of music, based on or designating an arbitrarily selected, fixed order of the twelve tones in a chromatic scale. |
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