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tone

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

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cast

English

Etymology

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (to throw, cast, overturn), from Proto-Germanic *kast?n? (to throw, cast), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (to cast, throw), Danish kaste (to throw), Swedish kasta (to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard), Icelandic kasta (to pitch, toss). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.

The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: käst, IPA(key): /k??st/
  • (Northern England): enPR: k?st, IPA(key): /kast/
  • (General American): enPR: k?st, IPA(key): /kæst/
  • Rhymes: -??st, -æst
  • Homophones: caste, karst

Verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

  1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
    1. (now somewhat literary) To throw. [from 13thc.]
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona:
        Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre [].
      • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, p.262:
        The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow [].
    2. To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. [from 14thc.]
      • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:
        As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers) [].
    3. To throw down or aside. [from 15thc.]
      • 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Matthew VI.30:
        it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
      • 1930, "Sidar the Madman", Time, 19 Dec.:
        Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:
        Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
    4. (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat. [from 15thc.]
    5. To cause (a horse or other large animal) to lie down with its legs underneath it.
    6. (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes). [from 14thc.]
      • 1822, "Life of Donald McBane", Blackwood's Magazine, vol.12, p.745:
        when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons [].
      • 2002, Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian, 2 March:
        You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
    7. (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
    8. (obsolete) To vomit.
      • These verses [] make me ready to cast.
    9. (archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
      • Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
    10. (archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
      • 1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
        This [] casts a sulphurous smell.
    • 1849, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History
      This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness
  2. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). [from 13thc.]
    • 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:
      To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, I.11:
      She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement [].
  3. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. [from 14thc.]
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2:
      The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
      I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.
  4. (social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
    1. (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.). [from 14thc.]
      • , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:
        he is [] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
      • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, 2012, p.332:
        John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.
      • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:
        He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.
    2. (obsolete) To plan, intend. [14th-19thc.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
        I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.
      • 1685, William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus
        The cloister [] had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
    3. (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance). [from 18thc.]
    4. (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
    5. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
      • She [] cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
    6. (archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
      • Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
    7. (archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
      • 1822, John Galt, The Provost
        She was cast to be hanged.
      • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
        Were the case referred to any competent judge, [] they would inevitably be cast.
    8. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
      • 24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored
        How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
  5. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
  6. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
    • 1950, "A Global View", Time, 24 April:
      The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.
    • 1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea:
      A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
  7. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry. [from 15thc.]
    • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:
      being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [transl. avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:
      The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.
  8. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15thc.]
    • 1923, "Rodin's Death", Time, 24 March:
      One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.
    1. (printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
  9. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.). [from 16thc.]
    • c. 1680, Joseph Moxon, The Art of Joinery
      Stuff is said to cast or warp when [] it alters its flatness or straightness.
  10. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. [from 18thc.]
  11. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote). [from 19thc.]
  12. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text. [from 20thc.]
  13. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. [from 18thc.]
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:
      He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.
  14. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  15. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
  16. (media) To broadcast.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

cast (plural casts)

  1. An act of throwing.
  2. (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
  3. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
    • a cast of scatter'd dust
  4. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
  5. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
    He’s in the cast of Oliver.
    The cast was praised for a fine performance.
  6. The casting procedure.
    The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
  7. An object made in a mould.
    The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
  8. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
    The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
  9. The mould used to make cast objects.
    A plaster cast was made from his face.
  10. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
      As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].
  11. A squint.
    • 1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968:
      The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 7:
      Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.
  12. Visual appearance.
    Her features had a delicate cast to them.
  13. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
    a cast of mind, a mental tendency.
    • 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, p. 40:
      The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:
      I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.
  14. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
  15. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
  16. A group of crabs.
  17. A broadcast.

Derived terms

  • castless
  • plaster cast

Translations

Further reading

  • cast at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • cast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cats, scat

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin castus, possibly borrowed or semi-learned.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kast/

Adjective

cast (feminine casta, masculine plural casts or castos, feminine plural castes)

  1. chaste

Related terms

  • castedat

Further reading

  • “cast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [k??st]
  • Hyphenation: cast

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cast.

Noun

cast m (plural casts, diminutive castje n)

  1. cast (people performing a movie or play)
Synonyms
  • rolbezetting
  • rolverdeling

Related terms

  • casten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cast

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of casten
  2. imperative of casten

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kast/
  • Hyphenation: càst

Noun

cast m (invariable)

  1. cast (group of actors performing together)

Manx

Adjective

cast

  1. contorted, curly, curved
  2. complex, intricate, many-sided
  3. ticklish

Mutation

Derived terms

  • castid
  • castys
  • neuchast
  • yl-chast

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kast/

Adjective

cast m or n (feminine singular cast?, masculine plural ca?ti, feminine and neuter plural caste)

  1. chaste, clean, pure

Declension

Synonyms

  • pur

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kast/, [?kast?]

Noun

cast m (plural casts)

  1. cast (group of actors)

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