manner of speaking, delivery, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

note - a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"

undertone - a quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones"

pitch - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

linguistics - the scientific study of language

sound property - an attribute of sound

resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities

coloration, colouration, color, colour - the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

harshness, roughness - harsh or rough to the ear

mellowness, fullness, richness - the property of a sound that has a rich and pleasing timbre

nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators

plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

shrillness, stridence, stridency - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments

music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

ambiance, ambience, atmosphere - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"

Hollywood - a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood"

Zeitgeist - the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation

color, coloring, colouring, colour - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"

tinge, undertone - a pale or subdued color

musical notation - a notation used by musicians

musical scale, scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

keynote, tonic - (music) the first note of a diatonic scale

supertonic - (music) the second note of a diatonic scale

mediant - (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant

subdominant - (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale

dominant - (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

submediant - (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic)

leading tone, subtonic - (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale

pedal, pedal point - a sustained bass note

trill, shake - a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

middle C - the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 Hertz

chord - a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together

passing note, passing tone - a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes

semibreve, whole note - a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)

half note, minim - a musical note having the time value of half a whole note

quarter note, crotchet - a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note

eighth note, quaver - a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note

semiquaver, sixteenth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note

demisemiquaver, thirty-second note - a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note

hemidemisemiquaver, sixty-fourth note - a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note

acciaccatura, appoggiatura, grace note - an embellishing note usually written in smaller size

blue note - a flattened third or seventh

monotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

auditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"

harmonic - a tone that is a component of a complex sound

muscular tissue, muscle - animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells

tautness, tenseness, tensity, tension - the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"

catatonia - extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia

muscle tone, muscular tonus - normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone"

myotonia - abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction

hypertonia, hypertonus, hypertonicity - (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic

hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity - (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic

musical interval, interval - the difference in pitch between two notes

quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

discolour, discolor, color, colour - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"

color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

exercise, work out - do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day"