| 单词 | intonate |
| 释义 | intonate (once / 231752 pages) v To intonate is to speak in a deliberate, almost musical way. Most poets intonate when they read their poems aloud. You'll intonate when you're speaking carefully to someone who can't hear well, and also when you're giving a speech. Chanting or reciting a story, song, or piece of verse also requires you to intonate — modulating the way your voice rises and falls as you speak. Intonate comes from the Medieval Latin intonare, "speak according to tone," from the Greek root tonos, "string," or "pitch." WORD FAMILYintonate: intonated+/atonal: atonalism, atonality, atonally/atonalism: atonalistic/atonality: atonalities/overtone: overtones/semitone: semitones/supertonic: supertonics/tonal: atonal, tonality, tonally/tonality: tonalities/tone: intonate, overtone, semitone, tonal, toned, toneless, toner, tones, tonic, toning, undertone/toned: toneder, tonedest/toneless: tonelessly/toner: toners/tonic: supertonic, tonically, tonicity, tonics/tonicity: hypertonicity/undertone: undertones USAGE EXAMPLESThey have this way they intonate their words. The Guardian(Aug 17, 2010) Those who didn't faint contributed variously intonated screams to the general unrest. Sholto, Ralph, "And That's How It Was, Officer"(2010) Quite a number of words, such as the enclitics mentioned above, are not intonated at all. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2010) 1v speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone please intonate with sadness Syn|Hyper intone judge, label, pronounce pronounce judgment on 2v recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm Syn|Hypo|Hyper cantillate, chant, intone singsong speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong sing produce tones with the voice |
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