Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to tones, a tone, or tonality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to muscular tonicity.
- In music, of or pertaining to tones.
- Pertaining to tonality: as, a tonal fugue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
- adjective Of or relating to
tones ortonality . - adjective music Employing tones that have a
predictable relationship to sometonic . - adjective linguistics Employing
differences inpitch (tones ) todistinguish differences in themeaning of otherwisesimilar words (words which would otherwise behomophonic ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words
- adjective having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly).
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I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly).
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Tonality and atonality (as syntaxes) may be anathema to one another, but the relationship between consonance and dissonance in tonal music is a defining characteristic of tonality.
Spark plugs and transmissions Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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When you hear someone use the word tonal to describe an outfit’s color scheme, they are referring to looks like this one.
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When you consider that between Spanish, English and Arabic, well over half of the planet doesn't speak a tonal language, that puts Chinese at a serious competative disadvantage.
Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Project of a new system of arithmetic, weight, measure, and coins, proposed to be called the tonal system, with sixteen to the base.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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One of the cleanest and most interesting re-appropriations I've seen recently with the notion of tonal achieving increasingly good results across the board.
Hypebeast 2008
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Rather, they constitute an inexplicable wave of energy which the Toltecs called the tonal and the nagual.
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But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love."
Ron Charles reviews "Great House," by Nicole Krauss Ron Charles 2010
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But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love."
Ron Charles reviews "Great House," by Nicole Krauss Ron Charles 2010
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