"Tonus" is a word in ENGLISH
Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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One agent stops by another agent's table to tell him the big news: "Elvis just died!" The second agent says nothing, then starts nodding. "Good career move."
A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
Read the complete definitionA family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or …
Read the complete definitionThe tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of …
Read the complete definitionUttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; …
Read the complete definitionThe fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.
Read the complete definitionThe seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
Read the complete definitionThe principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it …
Read the complete definitionTonicity; as, arterial tone.
Read the complete definitionThe key tone, or first tone of any scale.
Read the complete definitionOf or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed …
Read the complete definitionIncreasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.
Read the complete definitionThe state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
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