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Tone Up

Definition: Tone Up

Tone Up

Verb

1. Give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Tone Up

Synonyms: strengthen (v), tone (v). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Tone Up

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Tone Up

Expression using "tone up": To tone up. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tone Up

Language Translations for "tone up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

усилвам звука, усилвам (amplify, augment, exacerbate, exalt, exasperate, fortify, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify, nurse, piece in, potentiate, sharpen, stiffen, strengthen, swell, zip), засилвам се (accelerate, gather strength, intensify, pick up, recruit, strengthen), засилвам звука, подсилвам (buttress, enforce, fortify, invigorate, punctuate, recruit, reinforce, stiffen, strengthen, touch up, undergird). (various references)

   

German

  

kräftigen (brace, fortify, innervate, invigorate, strengthen, to innervate), in form bringen (condition). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τονώνω. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"מריץ (drive, encourage, goad, hearten, impel, instigate, spirit, spur, stimulate, stir up, urge), ל"'ביר (amplify, boost, enhance, heighten, intensify). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felfrissül (to freshen, to refresh oneself, to tone up), felélénkít (animate, brisk, smarten, to animate, to brush up, to enliven, to jazz up, to pep, to tone up, to zing up), erősebb színárnyalatot ad (to tone up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tonificare (invigorate, nerve, tone). (various references)

   

Manx

  

birraghey (sharpen, taper). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onetay upay

   

Portuguese

  

tonificar (brace, fortify, invigorate, strengthen). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tonifica sistemul nervos, întãri (bind, bond, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enforce, entrench, fix, fortify, harden, indurate, invigorate, nerve, recruit, reinforce, screw, season, stay, steady, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stress). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

poner en forma, fortalecer (anneal, encourage, firm up, fortify, strengthen, toughen, toughen up), entonar (blow, give, intonate, intone, modulate, perk up, pick up, pitch, place, raise, sound, tone). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

güçlendirmek (beef up, brace, cement, enforce, enrich, exalt, make strong, reinforce, soup up, steel, strengthen, support to, vivify), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тонізувати, посилюватися (aggrandize, get up, heighten, intensify, sharpen). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tone Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: netop, punto, puton.

-2 letters: nope, note, open, pent, peon, poet, pone, pout, punt, tone, tope, tune, unto, upon.

-3 letters: eon, net, not, nut, one, ope, opt, out, pen, pet, pot, pun, put, ten, toe, ton, top, tun, tup, upo.

-4 letters: en, et, ne, no, nu, oe, on, op, pe, to, un, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: opulent.

 

+2 letters: eruption, outpreen, outspend, outspent, pleuston, unpoetic, unpolite, unposted, unpotted, uptowner.

 

+3 letters: bluepoint, conceptus, corpulent, eruptions, importune, opportune, opulently, outpreens, outspends, outspoken, penthouse, plenteous, pleustons, pothunter, profluent, pulmonate, subpotent, thereupon, underplot, unspotted, unstopped, unstopper, uptowners.

 

+4 letters: bluepoints, cantaloupe, conceptual, conspectus, counterspy, countertop, couplement, deputation, euphoriant, expunction, houseplant, hypotenuse, importuned, importuner, importunes, intergroup, neuropathy, neutrophil, outkeeping, outleaping, outpainted, outpatient, outplanned, outpointed, outpreened, outpunched, outpunches, outspanned, outweeping, outyelping, peculation, penthouses, peritoneum, pleustonic, portentous, pothunters, poultrymen, precaution, procumbent, pulmonates, recoupment, reputation, resumption, stupendous, subpotency, subreption, supertonic, suppletion, tenpounder, underplots, unpolluted, unprompted, unreported, unstoppers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tone Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 6E 65      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006E 0065      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481807125582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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