Color vs. Tone

Difference Between Color and Tone

Colornoun

(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light

Humans and birds can perceive color.

Tonenoun

(music) A specific pitch.

Colornoun

(countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.

Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.

Tonenoun

(music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

Colornoun

(uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).

He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color".

Tonenoun

(music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.

Colornoun

(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.

Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.

Tonenoun

The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

Colornoun

(figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.

a bit of local color

Tonenoun

General character, mood, or trend.

Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

Colornoun

(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.

Tonenoun

(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

Colornoun

(in the plural) A standard or banner.

The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.

Tonenoun

(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.

Colornoun

The system of color television.

This film is broadcast in color.

Tonenoun

(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

Colornoun

(in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.

The colors were raised over the new territory.

Tonenoun

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

Colornoun

(in the plural) Gang insignia.

Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.

Tonenoun

The shade or quality of a colour.

Colornoun

(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.

He was awarded colors for his football.

Tonenoun

The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

This picture has tone.

Colornoun

The morning ceremony of raising the flag.

Tonenoun

The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus

Colornoun

In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.

Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?

Tonenoun

(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.

Colornoun

(physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.

Tonenoun

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

Colornoun

A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.

Toneverb

(transitive) to give a particular tone to

Colornoun

(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.

Toneverb

(transitive) to change the colour of

Colornoun

(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.

Toneverb

(transitive) to make (something) firmer

Colornoun

A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.

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Toneverb

(intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour

Colornoun

An appearance of right or authority.

Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.

Toneverb

(transitive) To utter with an affected tone.

Colornoun

(medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

Tonepronoun

The one (of two).

Coloradjective

Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.

Tonenoun

the quality of a person's voice;

he began in a conversational tonehe spoke in a nervous tone of voice

Colorverb

To give something color.

We could color the walls red.

Tonenoun

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages;

the Beijing dialect uses four tones

Colorverb

(intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

My kindergartener loves to color.

Tonenoun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovelythe muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet

Colorverb

(of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.

Her face colored as she realized her mistake.

Tonenoun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

the feel of the city excited hima clergyman improved the tone of the meetingit had the smell of treason

Colorverb

To affect without completely changing.

That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.

Tonenoun

a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted

Colorverb

(informal) To attribute a quality to.

Color me confused.

Tonenoun

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;

the singer held the note too long

Colorverb

(mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.

Can this graph be two-colored?You can color any map with four colors.

Tonenoun

a steady sound without overtones;

they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies

Colornoun

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

Tonenoun

the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli;

the doctor tested my tonicity

Colornoun

interest and variety and intensity;

the Puritan Period was lacking in color

Tonenoun

a musical interval of two semitones

Colornoun

the timbre of a musical sound;

the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music

Tonenoun

the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author;

the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdrawfrom the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome

Colornoun

a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

Toneverb

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

The students chanted the same slogan over and over again

Colornoun

an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading;

he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticityhe tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanctionthe situation soon took on a different color