(UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
(academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
(by extension) A call or song of a bird.
(by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
(extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
(finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
(obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.
(uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
A critical comment.
A diplomatic missive or written communication.
A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
A piece of paper money; a banknote.
A short informal letter; a billet.
verb
(transitive) To annotate.
(transitive) To denote; to designate.
(transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
(transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
(transitive) To set down in musical characters.
(transitive, law) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
teno
tone
tone
noun
(African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
(Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
(biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
(dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
(music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
(music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
(music) A specific pitch.
(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
