Tone

1. 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. 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.
3. n. Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
4. 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.
5. n. A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
6. 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.
7. n. The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
8. n. A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
9. 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.
10. n. Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
11. 1n. 1 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.
12. 1n. 1 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.