Index of English words, starting with "to"

(1) - Tonality (n.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.

(1) - Tone (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
(2) - Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
(3) - Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
(4) - Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
(5) - Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
(6) - Tone (n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
(7) - Tone (n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
(8) - Tone (n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
(9) - Tone (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
(10) - Tone (n.) State of mind; temper; mood.
(11) - Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
(12) - Tone (n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
(13) - Tone (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
(14) - Tone (v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.
(15) - Tone (v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
(16) - Tone (n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.