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INTONATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

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