Tone Of Voice

Definition: Tone Of Voice

1. The quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice".

Synonyms within Context: Tone Of Voice

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Voice	Noun: voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice; (loud); musical voice; intonation; tone of voice; (sound).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Tone Of Voice

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Don't look at me in that tone of voice. (Keeping the Faith; writing credit: Stuart Blumberg)
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Commercial Usage: Tone Of Voice

Domain	Title
Books	The English tone of voice : essays in intonation, prosody and paralanguage (reference) (more book examples)
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Sounds Captioned with "Tone Of Voice".

Play	Caption
	Man speaking the word "almost" with a disappointed tone of voice.
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Familiar Quotations: Tone Of Voice

Author	Quotation
Friedrich Nietzsche	When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: Tone Of Voice

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Responds to "no" and changes in tone of voice. (references)
		They often have difficulty interpreting tone of voice or facial expressions and do not respond to others' emotions or watch other people's faces for cues about appropriate behavior. (references)
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Modern Translation: Tone Of Voice

Language		Translations for "tone of voice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		tonfall (cadence, inflection, inflexion, intonation, lilt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		声音 (vocal sound), 声色 (imitative voice, mimicry, song and women, voice and countenance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいお�" (an unvoiced sound, correct Chinesepronunciation of a character, imperial blessings or favor, serene, tranquility, vocal sound), �"わいろ (imitative voice, mimicry), �"わね (vocal sound). (various references)

Manx		snieeagh (injured tone of voice). (various references)

Pig Latin		onetay ofay oicevay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Tone Of Voice

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	affectus vocis. (various references)
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Anagrams: Tone Of Voice

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-n-o-o-o-t-v"
	-3 letters: evection.
	-4 letters: coontie, ecotone.
	-5 letters: cenote, confit, cootie, entice, evince, footie, infect, noetic, notice, novice, ovonic.
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