Footprint vs Tone - What's the Difference?

Footprint

Tone

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
  • the area taken up by some object
  • a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
Definition as Noun
  • (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
  • the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
  • a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
  • a steady sound without overtones
  • a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
  • the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
  • (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
  • the quality of a person's voice
  • the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
  • a musical interval of two semitones
Definition as Verb
Definition as Verb
  • change the color or tone of
  • change to a color image
  • utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
  • vary the pitch of one's speech
  • give a healthy elasticity to

Synonyms

Examples

  • "the footprints of an earlier civilization"
  • "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"
  • "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
  • "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
  • "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"
  • "the singer held the note too long"
  • "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies"
  • "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
  • "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
  • "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
  • "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
  • "the doctor tested my tonicity"
  • "tone a negative"
  • "tone a photographic image"
  • "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
  • "Let's tone our muscles"

Parts of Speech

Noun
Noun, Verb

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