单词 | monotone |
释义 | monotone /mon"euh tohn'/, n. 1. a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone. 2. a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch. 3. recitation or singing of words in such a tone. 4. a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, esp. in singing. 5. sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree. adj. 6. monotonous. 7. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape. Cf. monochromatic (defs. 1, 2). 8. Math. monotonic (def. 2). [1635-45; < F monotone < LGk monótonos MONOTONOUS] |
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