tone

/təʊn/

意味: 音色、口調

例文: Haruki’s tone was gentle.
　　  ハルキの口調は優しかった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: tone of voice(声のトーン), skin tone(肌の色調), musical tone(音楽の音色)

定義: 音や声の高さや質、または色や雰囲気のことを指します。音楽では音の高さや音色を意味し、会話では声の調子や感情を表します。色に関しては、色の濃淡や雰囲気を示します。

toneは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the quality of a person’s voice
Noun: (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
Noun: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
Noun: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Noun: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
Noun: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
Noun: a steady sound without overtones
Noun: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
Noun: a musical interval of two semitones
Noun: the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Verb: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
Verb: vary the pitch of one’s speech
Verb: change the color or tone of
Verb: change to a color image
Verb: give a healthy elasticity to

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The speaker changed her tone during the presentation.(彼女はプレゼン中に話し方の調子を変えた。)
He adjusted the tone of the guitar string carefully.(彼はギターの弦の音色を慎重に調整した。)
The letter’s tone was polite but firm.(手紙の口調は丁寧だが厳しかった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he began in a conversational tone
Noun: he spoke in a nervous tone of voice
Noun: the Beijing dialect uses four tones
Noun: the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
Noun: the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
Noun: the feel of the city excited him
Noun: a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
Noun: it had the smell of treason
Noun: after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted
Noun: the singer held the note too long
Noun: they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies
Noun: the doctor tested my tonicity
Noun: the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw
Noun: from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome
Verb: The students chanted the same slogan over and over again
Verb: tone a negative
Verb: tone a photographic image
Verb: Let’s tone our muscles

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): chant, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, inflect, intone, look, modulate, musical note, note, pure tone, quality, shade, smell, spirit, step, strengthen, timber, timbre, tincture, tint, tone, tone of voice, tone up, tonicity, tonus, whole step, whole tone

Antonyms(反意語): atonicity

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): atmosphere, color, discolor, exercise, interval, manner of speaking, musical notation, pitch, quality, sound, sound property, talk, tension

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ability, accidental, accuracy, achromatic color, address, air, alto, amorality, appearance, arability, asset, atonality, attraction, aurify, azure, babble, bad, bar line, bark, bass, bay, begin, blacken, blackwash, blubber, blue, blurt out, blush, brachycephaly, bumble, cackle, catch, certainty, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, chatter, chromatic color, clearness, clef, coloration, combustibility, complexion, complexity, comprehensibility, concert pitch, constructiveness, correctness, counterfactuality, credibility, deliver, destructiveness, difference, difficulty, directivity, dissonance, distinction, divinity, divisibility, dolichocephaly, domesticity, drone, dub, dye, ease, elegance, elocution, embrown, enthuse, ethnicity, excellence, expressiveness, extraordinariness, extremeness, factuality, fermata, fibrosity, fidelity, fifth, finiteness, flat, foreignness, fourth, fruitfulness, fruitlessness, generality, generalize, genius loci, gloom, good, green, grey, gulp, handcolor, hardness, harmony, heather mixture, high pitch, hiss, holiness, hot stuff, humaneness, humanness, humor, ideality, illogicality, imbue, immateriality, immobility, immorality, impenetrability, impressiveness, inability, inaccuracy, incarnadine, incomprehensibility, incorrectness, incredibility, inelegance, infidelity, infiniteness, inhumaneness, insolubility, interval, inutility, irregularity, key, key signature, lawfulness, limber up, lip off, logicality, low pitch, materiality, measure, memorability, miasma, mobility, modulation, morality, motley, mottle, mumble, murmur, music, musicality, naivete, nativeness, natural, naturalness, nature, navigability, neediness, negativity, noise, nonsolid color, note, occidentalism, octave, opacity, open up, ordinariness, orientalism, originality, painfulness, pale, parental quality, particularity, pathos, peep, penetrability, pigment, pinkify, piquancy, pitch, pleasantness, polychrome, popularity, positivity, power, powerlessness, primary color, probability, prosody, protectiveness, publicity, purple, quantifiability, quarter tone, rant, rasp, read, redden, registration, regularity, relativity, responsiveness, rest, retouch, rhythmicity, romanticism, salability, sameness, satisfactoriness, scale, segno, semitone, seventh, sforzando, shade, sharp, shibboleth, shout, silence, silver, simplicity, sing, sixth, slur, snap, snivel, snootiness, soapiness, softness, solmization, solubility, sophistication, soprano, sound, speak in tongues, speak up, spinnability, spirit, staff, stuff, stuffiness, subjectivism, sufficiency, suitability, sunburn, swallow, tablature, talk of, tan, tenor, third, timbre, time signature, tint, tone, tongue, tonicity, train, troll, tumble, tune, turn, ulteriority, ultimate, uncertainty, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unresponsiveness, unsatisfactoriness, unsuitability, unwholesomeness, urbanity, utility, verbalize, verdigris, virtu, vocalize, volume, waxiness, weight-lift, whiff, whisper, whiten, wholesomeness, woodiness, worth, worthlessness, yack, yellow

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): blue note, catatonia, chord, color, dominant, eighth note, grace note, half note, harmonic, hollywood, hypertonia, hypotonia, mediant, mellowness, middle c, monotone, muscular tonus, myotonia, nasality, note, passing note, pedal point, plangency, quarter note, register, resonance, richness, roundness, shrillness, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, subdominant, submediant, subtonic, supertonic, thirty-second note, tonic, trill, undertone, whole note, zeitgeist

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: chant, feel, inflection, intonate, intonation, look, modulation, spirit, spiritize, tincture, tint, tonal, tone, toner, tonic

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: business, conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Suffixes(接尾辞):

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Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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