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 Translation for 'tone' from English to Norwegian
NOUN1   a tone | tones
NOUN2   tone | -
VERB   to tone | toned | toned
toning | tones
SYNO feel | feeling | flavor | ...
tone {m}tone
mus.
tonedøv {adj}
tone-deaf
tofarget {adj}two-tone
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Translation for 'tone' from English to Norwegian

tone
tone {m}

tone-deaf
tonedøv {adj}mus.
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two-tone
tofarget {adj}
Usage Examples English
  • Note that 'semitone' refers to the usual 12-tET scale, 'quarter-tone' refers to 24-tET, '5th-tone' refers to 31-tET (not 30-tET), '6th-tone' refers to 36-tET, '12-tone' refers to Schoenberg's '12-tone method'.
  • Tone sandhi is a process whereby adjacent tones undergo dramatic alteration in connected speech.
  • There are four phonemic tones in the Zigong dialect: dark level tone, light level tone, rising tone, and departing tone.
  • Typical well-known call progress tones are dial tone, ringing tone, busy tone, and the reorder tone.
  • When added to the 15:14 semitone, the 21:20 semitone and 28:27 semitone produce the 9:8 tone (major tone) and 10:9 tone (minor tone), respectively.

  • Tone sandhi or chain shift by circulation, as the tones are encoded by appending and modifying spellings with attention to the rules of the DT system.
  • Also called fifth tone or zeroth tone (in Chinese [...] , literal meaning: "light tone"), the neutral tone is sometimes thought of as a lack of tone.
  • Yoy has five phonologically distinctive tones in non-checked syllables.
  • In addition, UNESCO reports that various Togolese languages have [...] for nasal vowels, [...] for high tone, [...] for mid tone, and [...] for low tone.
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