(music) The musical interval equal to one quarter of a tone or 1/24 of an octave; half a semitone.

Paper having a slight tint, in distinction from paper which is quite white.

plural of tone meeting

(television) A meeting between the showrunner of a television series and the director to discuss an episode that is to be produced.

screentone

Having a pretentious, high-class attitude

A telephony signal, usually in the form of a sound, used to indicate that the telephone exchange is working, has recognized an off-hook, and is ready to accept a call.

To cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen. / To firm and strengthen the muscles of the body by regular exercise.

(phonetics) A form of downdrift in which the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch after certain other tones. The result is that a tone may be realized at a certain pitch over a short stretch of speech, shifts downward and then continues at its new level, then shifts downward again, until the end of the prosodic contour is reached, at which point the pitch resets.

(phonology) A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.