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9
a
: normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli
specifically : the state of partial contraction of skeletal muscle at rest : muscular tonus
c
: the state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor
toned; toning
Example Sentences
Noun He replied in a friendly tone. They spoke in hushed tones. Don't use that rude tone of voice with me. the low tones of an organ The speech had religious tones to it. The author's tone shows her attitude toward the subject. The professor's condescending tone irritated some students. a bright, dark, or light tone of blue the soft tones of the painting See More
Recent Examples on the Web
WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022 Makeup artist Nadia Tayeh kept Williams's deep, golden skin tone vibrant. Chelsea Avila, Allure, 14 Sep. 2022 The goal-line stand would set a crucial tone, one that Caleb Williams would carry all the way down the field on a subsequent 83-yard drive. Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022 Will Charles be able to suppress, or at least tone down, a lifetime of vocal advocacy? Richard Jerome, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022 On Monday night, Bumgarner offered a similar tone, content with his own stuff but lamenting a lack of command. Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2022 Hill tried again to work fast, but an 11-pitch walk by Nathaniel Lowe in the first disrupted his flow and set the tone — even a scoreless first inning took 22 pitches. Julian Mcwilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022 In contradiction to Rachmaninoff’s public image as a dour spirit, his late scores have a cosmopolitan veneer and a sly, ironic tone. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 These aren’t the first efforts to make use of wearables to monitor mood — Amazon’s Halo wristbands, for example, can monitor tone of voice, which itself is a methodology being tackled by many other companies. Mario Aguilar, STAT, 27 Aug. 2022 Eileen Ng And, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022 At one point, the mild-spoken Republican implored Americans to tone down the heated rhetoric. Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2022 The difference in opinion has reportedly caused tension between the two leaders, with Zelensky urging his American counterpart to tone down rhetoric and avoid stoking panic. Robert Hart, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Viserys refused, but after a brutal roundup of the criminals in King's Landing — all of whom had body parts cut off or are killed — Viserys told Daemon to tone down his brutality. Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022 The town resisted calls from prominent American and European intellectuals to tone down the play’s classic anti-Semitism. A.j. Goldmann, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022 In the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, Zelensky asked Biden to tone down the alarmism to avoid destabilizing Ukraine's economy. Grayson Quay, The Week, 11 June 2022 The travel-ready compact comes with a brush and powder to tone down excess shine. Melody Leibner, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 June 2022 Asked Friday at the Capitol about the responsibility leaders have to tone down the rhetoric and keep the nation calm during times of uncertainty and distress, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy demurred — and blamed Attorney General Merrick Garland. Lisa Mascaro, Chron, 13 Aug. 2022 See More
Noun
My Own on your Patreon demonstrates a similar tone, as well as a similar sense of pacing, for example. WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022 Makeup artist Nadia Tayeh kept Williams's deep, golden skin tone vibrant. Chelsea Avila, Allure, 14 Sep. 2022 The goal-line stand would set a crucial tone, one that Caleb Williams would carry all the way down the field on a subsequent 83-yard drive. Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022 Will Charles be able to suppress, or at least tone down, a lifetime of vocal advocacy? Richard Jerome, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022 On Monday night, Bumgarner offered a similar tone, content with his own stuff but lamenting a lack of command. Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2022 Hill tried again to work fast, but an 11-pitch walk by Nathaniel Lowe in the first disrupted his flow and set the tone — even a scoreless first inning took 22 pitches. Julian Mcwilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022 In contradiction to Rachmaninoff’s public image as a dour spirit, his late scores have a cosmopolitan veneer and a sly, ironic tone. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 These aren’t the first efforts to make use of wearables to monitor mood — Amazon’s Halo wristbands, for example, can monitor tone of voice, which itself is a methodology being tackled by many other companies. Mario Aguilar, STAT, 27 Aug. 2022 Verb
Administration officials on Monday called on China to tone down the rhetoric, underscoring that there was no reason for Beijing to escalate tensions in the Taiwan Strait over the potential visit. Eileen Ng And, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022 At one point, the mild-spoken Republican implored Americans to tone down the heated rhetoric. Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2022 The difference in opinion has reportedly caused tension between the two leaders, with Zelensky urging his American counterpart to tone down rhetoric and avoid stoking panic. Robert Hart, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Viserys refused, but after a brutal roundup of the criminals in King's Landing — all of whom had body parts cut off or are killed — Viserys told Daemon to tone down his brutality. Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022 The town resisted calls from prominent American and European intellectuals to tone down the play’s classic anti-Semitism. A.j. Goldmann, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022 In the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, Zelensky asked Biden to tone down the alarmism to avoid destabilizing Ukraine's economy. Grayson Quay, The Week, 11 June 2022 The travel-ready compact comes with a brush and powder to tone down excess shine. Melody Leibner, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 June 2022 Asked Friday at the Capitol about the responsibility leaders have to tone down the rhetoric and keep the nation calm during times of uncertainty and distress, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy demurred — and blamed Attorney General Merrick Garland. Lisa Mascaro, Chron, 13 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English ton, tone "musical sound or note, pitch," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French ton, tun, toen, borrowed from Latin tonus "strain, tension, musical pitch, note," borrowed from Greek tónos "stretching, tightening, exertion, pitch of the voice, accent in a syllable," nominal derivative from the base of teínein "to stretch, extend" — more at tenant entry 1
Note: As the Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition, points out, the phonetic development of tone is peculiar. The normal outcome of medieval French ton in modern English should have been *toun, parallel to sound, noun. If, on the other hand, the vowel of ton had merged with Middle English long close o, the result should have been *toon; toone (glossed as Latin tonus) is in fact rhymed with boone and moone in the rhyming dictionary of Peter Levins (Manipulus Vocabulorum, 1570). The Oxford editors are probably correct in suggesting that the present form of the word is due to repeated reshaping under the influence of the Latin source. Cf. tune entry 1.
Verb
derivative of tone entry 1
First Known Use
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1674, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 5
Time Traveler
The first known use of tone was in the 14th century Phrases Containing tone
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