Intonation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INTONATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something that is intoned
• the rise and fall of the voice in speaking
• the action of intoning or reciting in a singing voice.
• accuracy of pitch in playing or singing, or on a stringed instrument such as a guitar
• the opening phrase of a plainsong melody.
• A thundering; thunder.
• The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
• Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.
• Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.
• rise and fall of the voice pitch
• singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
• the act of singing in a monotonous tone
• the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that is intoned; the opening tones of a Gregorian chant

Words related to INTONATION

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Words that contain INTONATION

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How to use INTONATION in a sentence

• His master gave him at the same time what was evidently an order, repeating it twice, and speaking with signal clearness of intonation.
• Remarks, of which they could not catch the wording, but only the menacing intonation, were hurled upward at them.
• There was prayer, supplication, eagerness in every intonation.
• The intonation of the voice when speaking is commonly the same, but it frequently happens that the twins sing in different keys.
• The very speech and intonation of the one has melody, of the other harshness.
• Then, in a high, clear voice, strangely penetrating, but without harshness or a break or pause for breath, with rising and falling intonation, she cried her message.
• The cries of the hunters, as they ring through the ancient woods, are very expressive and beautiful, each different intonation belonging to a particular period of the hunt.
• As often as articulation passes naturally into intonation, there poetry begins.
• Mind and ear had been taxed to miss no word or intonation, for a slighted syllable might lose our cause.
• The phonograph companies seldom give out a record which is not practically perfect in technic and intonation.
• Broken and indistinct, one might hear the melancholy sound of the sleepy intonation of prayers.
• This method of breathing may then be put to the actual test in intonation.
• An ear sensitive to the finest shades of intonation.
• Her presence was forbidding, her countenance severe, and her voice and intonation something appalling.
• List we softly to the music As its volumes gently roll, Varied in their intonation By the tension of the soul.
• There was something in his intonation, in the sounds of the long sentences he used, that startled the two whites.
• He must know how to read a passage with proper intonation and appreciation of the sense, and he must learn large quantities of such poetry by heart.
• You felt it in the sound of his voice, the very charm of his intonation, his lyrical choice of words.
• But he could not help noticing a change in the expression of her face, her voice, and even her intonation.
• With a pleasant smile and intonation he touched gracefully on this and that, sometimes in reminiscence.
• But there had been strength, and the power to do, and the will to act in every intonation of his speech.
• First, there were voices below him, so clear and close that he could distinguish the intonation, and who it was that spoke, though the words were inaudible.
• Few artists, not barring some of the greatest, play with perfect intonation.
• He was angry, and his manner, voice, intonation showed it.
• To take one example among many, the pitch and intonation of the voice often impress more than the words.

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