Intonation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of intoning or chanting.
  • noun. An intoned utterance.
  • noun. A manner of producing or uttering tones, especially with regard to accuracy of pitch.
  • noun. The use of changing pitch to convey syntactic information.
  • noun. A use of pitch characteristic of a speaker or dialect.
  • noun. The opening phrase of a plainsong composition sung as a solo part.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A thundering; thunder.
  • noun. Utterance of tones; mode of enunciation; modulation of the voice in speaking; also, expression of sentiment or emotion by variations of tone: as, his intonation was resonant or harsh.
  • noun. The act of intoning or speaking with the singing voice; specifically, the use of musical tones in ecclesiastical delivery: as, the intonation of the litany.
  • noun. In music: The process or act of producing tones in general or a particular series of tones, like a scale, especially with the voice.
  • noun. In plain-song, the two or more notes leading up to the dominant or reciting-tone of a chant or melody, and usually sung by but one or a few voices. The proper intonation varies with the mode used, and also with the text to be sung.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A thundering; thunder.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
  • noun. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
  • noun. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See intone, v. t.
  • noun. The manner of speaking, especially the placement of emphasis, the cadence, and the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice while speaking.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A thundering; thunder.
  • noun. The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
  • noun. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
  • noun. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
  • noun. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of singing in a monotonous tone
  • noun. the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations
  • noun. rise and fall of the voice pitch
  • noun. singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
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