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| Main Entry: |
timbre
 [tam-ber, tim-; Fr. tan-bruh] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tone |
| Synonyms: | accent, beat, inflection, intonation, overtone, resonance, tonality |
| Notes: | what American call lumber, Britons call timber; timbre refers to the quality of sound timber refers to cut wood and to one's qualification for a position; timbre refers to the quality of sound |
| Antonyms: | pitch, volume |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stress or pitch in pronunciation |
| Synonyms: | accentuation, articulation, beat, cadence, emphasis, enunciation, force, inflection, intonation, meter, modulation, pronunciation, rhythm, stroke, timbre, tonality, tone |
| Main Entry: | inflection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accent, intonation |
| Synonyms: | articulation, change, emphasis, enunciation, modulation, pitch, pronunciation, sound, timbre, tonality, tone, tone of voice, variation |
| Notes: | in the jargon of grammar, the forms of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be arrayed in declensions or inflections; the forms of verbs are said to be arrayed in conjugations |
| Antonyms: | monotone |
Example Sentences
- It's the language, not the tone or timbre of your voice, that provides the identifying information.
- Possessed of an unusually rich pop baritone, he exploited his virile timbre for all of its considerable seductive power.
- Her voice had a distinctively warm timbre and her natural vocal inflection was filled with fascinating colors and highlights.
| Main Entry: | mood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind, high spirits, humor, inclination, individuality, low spirits, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tone of sound |
| Synonyms: | frequency, harmonic, modulation, rate, sound, timbre |
| Main Entry: | spirit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atmosphere, essence |
| Synonyms: | feeling, genius, gist, humor, intent, intention, meaning, purport, purpose, quality, sense, substance, temper, tenor, timbre, tone |
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | atmosphere, attitude, attribute, aura, character, climate, complexion, condition, constitution, disposition, drift, frame of mind, humor, individualism, individuality, leaning, makeup, mind, mood, nature, orientation, outlook, peculiarity, personality, posture, property, quality, scene, soul, spirit, state, strain, style, temperament, tendency, tenor, thing*, timbre, tone, trend, type, vein, way |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pitch, volume |
| Synonyms: | accent, emphasis, force, inflection, intonation, modulation, resonance, strength, stress, timbre, tonality |
| Main Entry: | tonality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tone |
| Synonyms: | accent, emphasis, force, inflection, intonation, modulation, resonance, strength, stress, timbre, tone color |
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