different between feel vs tone

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/, [fi??]
• Rhymes: -i?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English felen, from Old English f?lan (“to feel, perceive, touch”), from Proto-West Germanic *f?lijan (“to feel”).

Verb

feel (third-person singular simple present feels, present participle feeling, simple past and past participle felt)

1. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
   1. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

   2. (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.

   3. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
   4. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.

2. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
   1. (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
      • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
   2. (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
   3. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
   4. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
      • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

        [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.

      • 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires

        who feel for all mankind

3. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
4. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.

5. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).

6. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.

Usage notes

• When referring to the emotional state, most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used this way in US English.
• Adjectives to which "feel" is often applied as a copula: free, cold, cool, warm, hot, young, old, good, great, fine, happy, glad, satisfied, excited, bad, depressed, unhappy, sad, blue, sorry, smart, stupid, loved, appreciated, accepted, rejected, lonely, isolated, insulted, offended, slighted, cheated, shy, refreshed, tired, exhausted, calm, relaxed, angry, annoyed, frustrated, anxious, worried, jealous, proud, confident, safe, grateful, uncomfortable, unsafe, insecure, desperate, guilty, ashamed, disappointed, dirty, odd, strange, ill, sick.
• In senses 2,3, and 5, this is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb feel had the form feelest, and had feltest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form feeleth was used.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

feel (plural feels)

1. A quality of an object experienced by touch.

   Bark has a rough feel.

2. A vague mental impression.

   You should get a feel of the area before moving in.

3. An act of fondling.

   She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.

4. A vague understanding.

   I'm getting a feel for what you mean.

5. An intuitive ability.

   She has a feel for music.

6. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.

   I know that feel.

Derived terms

• cop a feel
• get a feel for
• mouthfeel

Translations

Etymology 2

See fele.

Pronoun

feel

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

Adjective

feel (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

Adverb

feel (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

References

Anagrams

• elfe, fele, flee, leef

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian f?la.

Verb

feel

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to feel

Old Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fid?lem (“faithful”). Replaced by the borrowing fidel in modern Catalan.

Adjective

feel

1. faithful

Seri

Noun

feel (plural feeloj)

1. mallard, Anas platyrhynchos

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, and tonus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /t??n/
• (US) enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /to?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

tone (plural tones)

1. (music) A specific pitch.
2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
5. General character, mood, or trend.

   Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

6. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
7. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

   Children often read with a tone.

8. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

     Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
   • c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope

     The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

10. The shade or quality of a colour.
11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

    This picture has tone.

12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
13. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
14. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
15. (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun

Synonyms

• (an interval of a major second): whole tone

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)

1. (transitive) to give a particular tone to
2. (transitive) to change the colour of
3. (transitive) to make (something) firmer
4. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour
5. (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

Synonyms

• (give a particular tone to):
• (change the colour of): color/colour, dye, paint, tint
• (make firmer): firm, firm up, tone up
• (harmonize): harmonise/harmonize
• (utter with an affected tone):

Derived terms

• betone
• toned
• tone down
• toner
• tone up
• tony, toney (affected tone)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.

Pronoun

tone

1. (now dialectal) the one (of two)

Further reading

• tone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tone in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• ETNO, Eton, Note, Teno, ento-, note, teno-

Afrikaans

Noun

tone

1. plural of toon

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?n?/, [?t?o?n?]

Noun

tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)

1. tone
2. note

Declension

Verb

tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)

1. to sound
2. to tone
3. to tint

References

• “tone” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

tone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen

Anagrams

• toen

Latin

Noun

tone

1. vocative singular of tonus

Middle English

Pronoun

tone

1. the one (of two)

   • So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

• halvtone

References

• “tone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tu?n?/

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural tonar, definite plural tonane)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

• halvtone
• tonekunst

References

• “tone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tone (ma class, plural matone)

1. drop

Tokelauan

Etymology

Borrowed from English ton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.ne/
• Hyphenation: to?ne

Noun

tone

1. ton

Alternative forms

• tane

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 397