tone meaning
EN
[təʊn] [toʊn] [-əʊn] 
US WTone
- Tone may refer to:
- NounPLtonesSUF-one
- (music) A specific pitch.
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- General character, mood, or trend.
- Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
- (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- (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.
- (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- OBS State of mind; temper; mood.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- This picture has tone.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
- (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.
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (music) A specific pitch.
- Pronoun
- (now dialectal) The one (of two).
- (now dialectal) The one (of two).
- VerbSGtonesPRtoningPT, PPtoned
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The target tone was presented diotically or with an interaural phase difference (IPD) of 180° and in harmonic or "mistuned" relationship to the diotic masker.
- I hope they'll tone it down and stop arguing so much.
- There, as she praised my beautiful skin tone and “cute little freckles,” I flashed back to the probing mallgoer.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tone in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "tone" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a pronoun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.