plural of tone poem

(Britain) Alternative spelling of tone dialing

(Chinese phonetics) A short, sharp tone found with syllables that end in plosives (usually /-p -t -k -ʔ/).

(physiology) The continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, which helps maintain posture.

plural of tone mark

(linguistics) A symbol used to indicate tones in tonal languages.

The quality, manner or way an individual speaks.

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

(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.