Spanish | English |
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tono noun {m} | hue [hues](color or shade of color; tint; dye) pitch [pitches](level or degree) shade [shades](variety of color) tint [tints](color considered with reference to other similar colors) tone [tones](specific pitch, quality and duration; a note) |
tono de llamada noun {m} | ringtone(sound made by a telephone when ringing) |
tono de marcar noun {m} | dial tone(telephony signal) |
tono muscular noun {m} | muscle tone(the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles) |
alóctono adjective | allochthonous(originating in a place other than where it is found) |
antonomasia noun {f} | antonomasia(substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun) |
autonombrado adjective | self-proclaimedadjective |
autonomía noun {f} | autonomy [autonomies](self-government) range [ranges](distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) |
autóctono adjective | autochthonous(native to the place where found) indigenous(born or engendered in, native to a land or region) |
autóctono noun {m} | autochthon [autochthons](earliest inhabitant) |
barítono noun {m} | baritone [baritones](male voice) |
darse tono verb | give oneself airs(to act pretentiously) put on airs(become haughty, assume a haughty manner) |
desentono noun {m} | misfit [misfits](failure to fit well, unsuitability) |
ecotono noun | ecotone [ecotones](a region of transition) |
fotonovela noun {f} | photonovelnoun |
fuera de tono preposition | out of tune(not in correct musical pitch) |
hablar con tono paternalista verb | patronize [patronized, patronizing, patronizes](to assume a tone of unjustified superiority) |
hablar fuera de tono verb | talk out of turn(speak when not allowed to) |
isótono noun {m} | isotone(Any of a number of nuclides of different elements) |
marca de tono noun {f} | tone marknoun |
monótono adjective | monotone(having a single pitch) monotonic(mathematics: never decreasing or increasing as its independent variable increases) monotonous(having an unvarying tone or pitch) mundane(ordinary) |
oxítono adjective | oxytoneadjective |
por antonomasia adjective | par excellence(being a quintessential example of a general type) |
proparoxítono adjective | proparoxytoneadjective |
protonosfera noun | protonospherenoun |
Ptono proper noun {m} | Phthonus(Greek god of envy and jealousy) |
saxofón barítono noun | baritone saxophone(brass instrument) |
semitono noun {m} | semitone [semitones](interval between adjacent keys) |
sobretono noun {m} | overtone [overtones](harmonic) |
subido de tono adjective | risqué(bordering on the indelicate) |