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Substantiivit

1. (music) A specific pitch.
2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
5. General character, mood, or trend.
6. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
7. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
8. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
10. The shade or quality of a colour.
11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus
13. (biology) 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.
14. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

Pronominit

1. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

Verbit

1. (transitive) to give a particular tone to
2. (transitive) to change the colour of
3. (transitive) to make (something) firmer
4. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour
5. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.