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n. - Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone. ²
n. - Color quality proper; -- called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade. ²
n. - The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture. ²
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. ²
n. - Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. ²
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. ²
n. - A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones. ²
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. ²
n. - The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone. ²
n. - A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones. ²
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. ²
n. - Tonicity; as, arterial tone. ²
n. - State of mind; temper; mood. ²
n. - Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory. ²
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. ²
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. ²
v. t. - To utter with an affected tone. ²
v. t. - To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t. ²
v. t. - To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment. ²

The word "tone" uses 4 letters: E N O T.

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Words formed by adding one letter before or after tone (in bold), or to enot in any order:
a -   atone   oaten   b -   beton   c -   cento   conte   d -   noted   toned   f -   often   j -   jeton   k -   token   l -   lento   m -   monte   n -   nonet   tenon   tonne   p -   netop   r -   noter   tenor   toner   trone   s -   notes   onset   seton   steno   stone   tones   y -   toney  

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en   eon   et   ne   net   no   not   oe   on   one   ten   to   toe   ton  

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