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T0260100 (tōn)n.1. Music a. A sound of distinct pitch, quality, and duration; a note.b. The interval of a major second in the diatonic scale; a whole step.c. A recitational melody in a Gregorian chant.2. a. The quality or character of sound.b. The characteristic quality or timbre of a particular instrument or voice.3. a. The pitch of a word used to determine its meaning or to distinguish differences in meaning.b. The particular or relative pitch of a word, phrase, or sentence.4. Manner of expression in speech or writing: took an angry tone with the reporters.5. A general quality, effect, or atmosphere: a room with an elegant tone.6. a. A color or shade of color: light tones of blue.b. Quality of color: The green wallpaper had a particularly somber tone.7. The general effect in painting of light, color, and shade.8. Physiology a. The normal state of elastic tension or partial contraction in resting muscles.b. Normal firmness of a tissue or an organ.v. toned, ton·ing, tones v.tr.1. To give a particular tone or inflection to.2. To soften or change the color of (a painting or photographic negative, for example).3. To sound monotonously; intone.4. To make firmer or stronger. Often used with up: exercises that tone up the body.v.intr.1. To assume a particular color quality.2. To harmonize in color.Phrasal Verb: tone down To make less vivid, harsh, or violent; moderate.

[Middle English ton, from Old French, from Latin tonus, from Greek tonos, string, a stretching; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

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(təʊn) n1. sound with reference to quality, pitch, or volume2. (Music, other) short for tone colour3. (Music, other) US and Canadian another word for note¹⁰4. (General Physics) (in acoustic analysis) a sound resulting from periodic or regular vibrations, composed either of a simple sinusoidal waveform (pure tone) or of several such waveforms superimposed upon one main one (compound tone)5. (Classical Music) an interval of a major second; whole tone6. (Music, other) Also called: Gregorian tone any of several plainsong melodies or other chants used in the singing of psalms7. (Linguistics) linguistics any of the pitch levels or pitch contours at which a syllable may be pronounced, such as high tone, falling tone, etc8. the quality or character of a sound: a nervous tone of voice. 9. general aspect, quality, or style: I didn't like the tone of his speech. 10. high quality or style: to lower the tone of a place. 11. (Colours) the quality of a given colour, as modified by mixture with white or black; shade; tint: a tone of red. 12. (Physiology) physiol a. the normal tension of a muscle at restb. the natural firmness of the tissues and normal functioning of bodily organs in health13. (Art Terms) the overall effect of the colour values and gradations of light and dark in a picture14. (Photography) photog a colour or shade of colour, including black or grey, of a particular area on a negative or positive that can be distinguished from surrounding lighter or darker areasvb15. (often foll by: with) to be of a matching or similar tone (to): the curtains tone with the carpet. 16. (tr) to give a tone to or correct the tone of17. (Photography) photog (tr) to soften or change the colour of the tones of (a photographic image) by chemical means18. (Physiology) (tr) to give greater firmness or strength to (the body or a part of the body)19. an archaic word for intone[C14: from Latin tonus, from Greek tonos tension, tone, from teinein to stretch]

Tone

(təʊn) n (Biography) (Theobald) Wolfe. 1763–98, Irish nationalist, who founded (1791) the Society of United Irishmen and led (1798) French military forces to Ireland. He was captured and sentenced to death but committed suicide

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n., v. toned, ton•ing. n. 1. any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones. 2. quality or character of sound. 3. vocal sound; the sound made by vibrating muscular bands in the larynx. 4. a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice. 5. an accent peculiar to a person, people, locality, etc., or a characteristic mode of sounding words in speech. 6. a pitch or movement in pitch serving to distinguish two words otherwise composed of the same sounds, as in Chinese. 7. the pitch, relative pitch, or change in pitch of a syllable, word, phrase, etc. 8. a. a musical sound of definite pitch, consisting of several partial tones, the lowest being the fundamental and the others the harmonics or overtones. b. whole step. 9. a quality of color with reference to the degree of absorption or reflection of light; a tint or shade; value. 10. a slight modification of a given color; hue. 11. the prevailing effect of harmony of color and values. 12. a. the normal state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body. b. that state of the body or of an organ in which all its functions are performed with healthy vigor. 13. a. a normal healthy mental condition. b. a particular mental state or disposition. 14. a particular style or manner, as of writing or speech; mood. 15. prevailing character or style, as of manners, morals, or philosophical outlook: the liberal tone of the 1960s. 16. style, distinction, or elegance. v.t. 17. to sound with a particular tone. 18. to give the proper tone to (a musical instrument). 19. to modify the tone or general coloring of. 20. to give the desired tone to (a painting, drawing, etc.). 21. to render as specified in tone or coloring. 22. to modify the tone or character of. 23. to give or restore physical or mental tone to. v.i. 24. to take on a particular tone; assume color or tint. 25. tone down, a. to become or cause to become softened or moderated. b. to make (a painted color) less intense in hue; subdue. 26. tone up, a. to give a higher or stronger tone to. b. to gain or cause to gain in tone or strength. [1275–1325; Middle English (n.) < Latin tonus < Greek tónos cord, band, pitch, tone, derivative of teínein to stretch] tone′less, adj.

tone

- A color variation with more variations than a shade—having to do with the value (brightness) of a hue (position in the spectrum) or its chroma (saturation or purity).See also related terms for hue.

tone

Each distinguishable shade variation from black to white on imagery.

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Past participle: toned
Gerund: toning

Imperative
tone
tone

Present
I tone
you tone
he/she/it tones
we tone
you tone
they tone

Preterite
I toned
you toned
he/she/it toned
we toned
you toned
they toned

Present Continuous
I am toning
you are toning
he/she/it is toning
we are toning
you are toning
they are toning

Present Perfect
I have toned
you have toned
he/she/it has toned
we have toned
you have toned
they have toned

Past Continuous
I was toning
you were toning
he/she/it was toning
we were toning
you were toning
they were toning

Past Perfect
I had toned
you had toned
he/she/it had toned
we had toned
you had toned
they had toned

Future
I will tone
you will tone
he/she/it will tone
we will tone
you will tone
they will tone

Future Perfect
I will have toned
you will have toned
he/she/it will have toned
we will have toned
you will have toned
they will have toned

Future Continuous
I will be toning
you will be toning
he/she/it will be toning
we will be toning
you will be toning
they will be toning

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been toning
you have been toning
he/she/it has been toning
we have been toning
you have been toning
they have been toning

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been toning
you will have been toning
he/she/it will have been toning
we will have been toning
you will have been toning
they will have been toning

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been toning
you had been toning
he/she/it had been toning
we had been toning
you had been toning
they had been toning

Conditional
I would tone
you would tone
he/she/it would tone
we would tone
you would tone
they would tone

Past Conditional
I would have toned
you would have toned
he/she/it would have toned
we would have toned
you would have toned
they would have toned

tone

The quality or value of color, e.g. warm or cold tones.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tone - the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"tone of voicemanner of speaking, delivery, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"note - a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"roundness, rotundity - the fullness of a tone of voice; "there is a musky roundness to his wordiness"undertone - a quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones"
	2.	tone - (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"pitch - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibrationlinguistics - the scientific study of language
	3.	tone - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"timbre, quality, timbersound property - an attribute of soundharmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamentalresonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavitiescoloration, colouration, color, colour - the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonatorsplangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonantstridence, stridency, shrillness - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched soundregister - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instrumentsmusic - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
	4.	tone - the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"flavor, flavour, feel, spirit, smell, feeling, lookambiance, ambience, atmosphere - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"Hollywood - a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood"Zeitgeist - the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
	5.	tone - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"tint, shade, tincturecolor, coloring, colouring, colour - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"mellowness - a soft shade of a color; "a mellowness of light and shade not attainable in marble"richness - a strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room"tinge, undertone - a pale or subdued color
	6.	tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"musical note, notemusical notation - (music) notation used by musiciansmusical scale, scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)keynote, tonic - (music) the first note of a diatonic scalesupertonic - (music) the second note of a diatonic scalemediant - (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominantsubdominant - (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scaledominant - (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scalesubmediant - (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic)leading tone, subtonic - (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scalepedal, pedal point - a sustained bass notetrill, shake - a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above itmiddle C - the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertzchord - a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded togetherpassing note, passing tone - a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notessemibreve, whole note - a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)half note, minim - a musical note having the time value of half a whole notequarter note, crotchet - a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole noteeighth note, quaver - a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole notesemiquaver, sixteenth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole notedemisemiquaver, thirty-second note - a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole notehemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole noteacciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note - an embellishing note usually written in smaller sizeblue note - a flattened third or seventhmonotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
	7.	tone - a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"pure toneauditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"harmonic - a tone that is a component of a complex sound
	8.	tone - the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"tonicity, tonusmuscular tissue, muscle - animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cellstautness, tenseness, tensity, tension - the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"catatonia - extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophreniamuscle tone, muscular tonus - normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone"myotonia - abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contractionhypertonia, hypertonus, hypertonicity - (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonichypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity - (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic
	9.	tone - a musical interval of two semitoneswhole step, whole tone, stepmusical interval, interval - the difference in pitch between two notes
	10.	tone - the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
Verb	1.	tone - utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"intone, chantmouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
	2.	tone - vary the pitch of one's speechinflect, modulatemouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
	3.	tone - change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"discolour, discolor, color, colour - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
	4.	tone - change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
	5.	tone - give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"tone up, strengthenexercise, work out - do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day"

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noun1. pitch, stress, volume, accent, force, strength, emphasis, inflection, intonation, timbre, modulation, tonality He spoke in a low tone to her.2. volume, timbre, tonality the clear tone of the bell3. character, style, approach, feel, air, effect, note, quality, spirit, attitude, aspect, frame, manner, mood, drift, grain, temper, vein, tenor The tone of the letter was very friendly.4. colour, cast, shade, tint, tinge, hue Each brick also varies slightly in tone.5. note, beep a dialling toneverb1. harmonize, match, blend, suit, go well with Her sister toned with her in a turquoise print dress.tone something down1. moderate, temper, soften, restrain, subdue, play down, dampen, mitigate, modulate, soft-pedal (informal) He toned down his militant statement after the meeting.2. reduce, moderate, soften, lessen He was asked to tone down the spices and garlic in his recipes.tone something up get into condition, trim, shape up, freshen, tune up, sharpen up, limber up, invigorate, get in shape Regular exercise will tone up your stomach muscles.

tone

noun1. A sound of distinct pitch and quality:timbre, tonality, tone color.2. A particular vocal quality that indicates some emotion or feeling:accent, inflection, intonation.Idiom: tone of voice.3. A distinctive way of expressing oneself:fashion, manner, mode, style, vein.4. A general impression produced by a predominant quality or characteristic:air, ambiance, atmosphere, aura, feel, feeling, mood, smell.5. A prevailing quality, as of thought, behavior, or attitude:climate, mood, spirit, temper.6. The property by which the sense of vision can distinguish between objects, as a red apple and a green apple, that are very similar or identical in form and size:color, hue, shade, tint.7. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation:cast, hue, tinge, tint.phrasal verb
tone down1. To make less emphatic or obvious:de-emphasize, play down.Informal: soft-pedal.2. To make or become less severe or extreme:moderate, mute, qualify, soften, subdue, tame, temper.

Translations

全音程肌体的结实度色调语调音调

tone

(təun) noun1. (the quality of) a sound, especially a voice. He spoke in a low/angry/gentle tone; He told me about it in tones of disapproval; That singer/violin/piano has very good tone. 音调，语调 2. a shade of colour. various tones of green.色调3. firmness of body or muscle. Your muscles lack tone – you need exercise.肌体的结实度4. in music, one of the larger intervals in an octave eg between C and D. 全音程 verb to fit in well; to blend. The brown sofa tones (in) well with the walls.颜色和谐ˈtonal adjective of musical tones. 音调的ˈtoneless adjective without tone; with no variation in sound etc. She spoke in a toneless voice. 单调的，无音调的 ˈtonelessly adverb单调地tone down to make or become softer, less harsh etc. He toned down some of his criticisms.缓和

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In music, a tone is distinguished from noise by its definite pitch, caused by the regularity of the vibrations which produce it. Any tone possesses the attributes of pitch, intensity, and quality. Pitch is determined by the frequency of the vibration, measured in cycles per second; intensity (or loudness) is determined by the amplitude, measured in decibels. Quality is determined by the overtones (see harmonicharmonic.
1 Physical term describing the vibration in segments of a sound-producing body (see sound). A string vibrates simultaneously in its whole length and in segments of halves, thirds, fourths, etc.
..... Click the link for more information. ), the distinctive timbre of any instrument being the result of the number and relative prominence of the overtones it produces. When two fairly loud tones of equal volume but different pitch are sounded together, a fainter resultant tone, representing either the sum of their two rates of vibration (summation tone) or the difference (difference tone) may be heard. The term whole tone or whole step refers to the intervalinterval,
in music, the difference in pitch between two tones. Intervals may be measured acoustically in terms of their vibration numbers. They are more generally named according to the number of steps they contain in the diatonic scale of the piano; e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. of a major second or its equivalent; the term half tone, semitone, or half step denotes a minor second (see scalescale,
in music, any series of tones arranged in a step-by-step rising or falling order of pitch. A scale defines the interval relationship of each tone to the others upon which the composition depends.
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Tone

in language. (1) A phonologically meaningful melodic variation of a sound’s pitch. A tone is produced by raising or lowering the voice; the resulting level of pitch may remain the same throughout a syllable or may become higher or lower. The number of such levels, or registers, varies from one language to another, but probably does not exceed four: one upper level, two intermediate levels, and one lower level.

A tone whose level remains constant throughout a syllable is called an even tone, and one whose level changes is called a contour tone. Contour tones may be one-directional (rising/falling) or two-directional (rising-falling/falling-rising). For example, in Chinese, mä (“mother”) has an even tone, nán (“south”) a rising tone, lì (“to stand”) a falling tone, and hsiěh (“to write”) a falling/rising tone. In some languages, such as Vietnamese, other features also distinguish tones, for example, intensity, length, pharyngealization, and glottal stops.

The character of tones may also depend on the nature of a syllable’s consonants. For example, in Tangut, initial voiceless consonants are combined with high pitch, and voiced consonants with a low pitch. All languages have pitch, or tonal modification of the voice as an element of intonation patterns, but not all languages have tones. In some languages, such as Serbo-Croatian, in which tones may be distinguished only in a stressed syllable, tones are usually regarded as a type of stress. In languages all of whose syllables have tones, tones are also called syllabic accents. Tones form a separate system of suprasegmental units of language; the system has its own paradigmatics and syntagmatics.

Tones also constitute a way of expressing lexical and grammatical meanings; compare, for example, shīh (“to lose”), shíh (“ten”), shìh (“deed”), and shǐh (“history”). In Nuer, a Nilotic language, lèi means “animal” and léi “animals.” In a spoken chain, the difference between tones is based on linear contrasts and not on the absolute physical pitch of a sound. A given tone may have different absolute characteristics in different positions, but it can always be identified by its contrast with other tones and by the morpheme’s paradigmatic unity. The number of tones in the world’s languages ranges from two to ten.

(2) The acoustic characteristics of a sound, determined by the concentration of energy in the sound’s higher and lower frequencies. In phonetics this concept is expressed by the term “tonality” rather than “tone.” Sounds may have high or low tonality; for example, in terms of the average frequency of the F2 formant, the Russian vowels u, o, and a have low tonality, whereas e and i have high tonality. In phonology, tonality is one of the universal distinctive phonemic features constituting the system of linguistic features formulated by R. O. Jakobson and M. Halle.

REFERENCES

Zinder, L. R. Obshchaia fonetika. Leningrad, 1960.
Fant, A. Akusticheskaia teoriia recheobrazovaniia. Moscow, 1964. (Translated from English.)
Pike, K. L. Tone Languages, 5th ed. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1961.
Wang, S.-J. “Phonological Features of Tone.” International journal of American Linguistics, 1967, vol. 33, no. 2, part 1.
Welmers, W. E. African Language Structures. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London, 1973.

V. A. VINOGRADOV

Tone

in music:

(1) A sound having a specific pitch; a musical sound. A tone may be either a pure sinusoidal vibration at a given frequency (pure tone), or it may contain several constituent frequencies.

(2) A whole tone, whether expressed as one-sixth of an octave, a major second, a diminished third, or a double augmented prime.

IU. N. KHOLOPOV

Tone

a river in Japan, on the island of Honshu. The Tone measures 322 km in length and drains an area of 15,760 sq km. Its sources are in the Echigo Mountains. The river irrigates the Kwanto Plain and flows into the Pacific Ocean. The Edo River, a branch of the Tone, flows into Tokyo Bay at Tokyo.

The mean flow rate in the lower course is approximately 180 cu m per sec, and the maximum flow rate is more than 500 cu m per sec. There are freshets in summer. The Tone is used for irrigation and as a water source. It is navigable as far as the city of Koga. The large fishing port of Choshi is situated at the Tone’s mouth.

tone

[′tōn] (acoustics) A sound oscillation capable of exciting an auditory sensation having pitch. An auditory sensation having pitch. (graphic arts) Each distinguishable shade variation from black to white on photographs.

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1. US and Canadian another word for note2. (in acoustic analysis) a sound resulting from periodic or regular vibrations, composed either of a simple sinusoidal waveform (pure tone) or of several such waveforms superimposed upon one main one (compound tone) 3. an interval of a major second; whole tone 4. any of several plainsong melodies or other chants used in the singing of psalms 5. the quality of a given colour, as modified by mixture with white or black; shade; tint 6. Physiola. the normal tension of a muscle at rest b. the natural firmness of the tissues and normal functioning of bodily organs in health 7. the overall effect of the colour values and gradations of light and dark in a picture 8. Photog a colour or shade of colour, including black or grey, of a particular area on a negative or positive that can be distinguished from surrounding lighter or darker areas

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noun pitch

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noun volume

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noun character

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noun colour

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noun note

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verb harmonize

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phrase tone something down: moderate

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phrase tone something down: reduce

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phrase tone something up

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noun a sound of distinct pitch and quality

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noun a particular vocal quality that indicates some emotion or feeling

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noun a distinctive way of expressing oneself

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noun a general impression produced by a predominant quality or characteristic

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noun a prevailing quality, as of thought, behavior, or attitude

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noun the property by which the sense of vision can distinguish between objects, as a red apple and a green apple, that are very similar or identical in form and size

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