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INTONATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("intonation" is a kind of...):
music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intonation"):
fixed intonation (the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer)
Derivation:
intonate; intone (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of singing in a monotonous tone
Synonyms:
chanting; intonation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("intonation" is a kind of...):
singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intonation"):
cantillation (liturgical chanting)
Derivation:
intonate; intone (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)
intone (utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("intonation" is a kind of...):
singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)
Derivation:
intonate; intone (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Rise and fall of the voice pitch
Synonyms:
intonation; modulation; pitch contour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("intonation" is a kind of...):
inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intonation"):
intonation pattern (intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements)
drone; droning; monotone (an unchanging intonation)
singsong (a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation)
Derivation:
intonate (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)
intonate (speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone)
intone (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)
intone (speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone)
