intonation
intonations
Even if your friend claims she's not upset by the death of her pet iguana, her intonation may tell a different story. Intonation means the way someone's voice rises and falls as they're speaking.
Your emotions, your regional accent, or just the particular way you're used to speaking can all affect the intonation of your voice. There's something musical in the way people speak, and intonation describes that musicality. The word also means "producing musical tones," either with your voice or a musical instrument. Another kind of intonation is chanting, or half-speaking, half-singing your words.
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the act of singing in a monotonous tone
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synonyms:
chanting
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types:
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cantillation
liturgical chanting
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type of:
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singing, vocalizing
the act of singing vocal music
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cantillation
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singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
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type of:
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singing, vocalizing
the act of singing vocal music
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singing, vocalizing
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rise and fall of the voice pitch
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synonyms:
cadence, modulation, pitch contour
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types:
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intonation pattern
intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements
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drone, droning, monotone
an unchanging intonation
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singsong
a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
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type of:
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inflection, prosody
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
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intonation pattern
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the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations
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types:
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fixed intonation
the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer
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type of:
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music
musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
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fixed intonation
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