Word: 'tone' • Extended Annotations

tone

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of tone

Sanskrit तान tāna

an object of sense
monotonous tone
a protracted tone, a key-note
fibre

tana (तन)—[n] ā [f] offspring, child
tāna (तान)—[m] thread, fibre; [n] expanse

tāṇa (ताण)

the state of being stretched or strained; stretchedness or strain (as of a rope, cloth etc.)
intense anger, a rage, a passion
vigorous and unremitting exertion or application: also the exhausted or wearied state arising from it

Ancient Greek τόνος tónos

that by which a thing is stretched, or by which it stretches itself
tone, note
cord, rope
chord
pitch or accent of a word or syllable
measure or metre
mental or physical exertion
(generally) force, intensity

Latin tonus, -i

thunder (sound caused by lightning)
tone
note
key
mood
interval
astronomical measure

tone noun

a presence of apparent energy

sound with reference to quality, pitch, or volume
short for tone colour
(in acoustic analysis) a sound resulting from periodic or regular vibrations, composed either of a simple sinusoidal waveform ( pure tone) or of several such waveforms superimposed upon one main one (compound tone)
an interval of a major second; whole tone
also called: Gregorian tone
any of several plainsong melodies or other chants used in the singing of psalms
linguistics
any of the pitch levels or pitch contours at which a syllable may be pronounced, such as high tone, falling tone, etc
the quality or character of a sound
general aspect, quality, or style
high quality or style
the quality of a given colour, as modified by mixture with white or black; shade; tint
physiology
a. the normal tension of a muscle at rest
b. the natural firmness of the tissues and normal functioning of bodily organs in health
the overall effect of the colour values and gradations of light and dark in a picture
photography
a colour or shade of colour, including black or grey, of a particular area on a negative or positive that can be distinguished from surrounding lighter or darker areas

Details

Specific examples and quotes of tone

Tāna (तान) represents the number 49 (forty-nine) in the “word-numeral system” (bhūtasaṃkhyā), which was used in Sanskrit texts dealing with astronomy, mathematics, metrics, as well as in the dates of inscriptions and manuscripts in ancient Indian literature.

In Jainism, Tāna (तान) refers to a “melodic figure”, of which there are 49.

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