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Aural vs Tonal - What's the difference?

aural | tonal |

As adjectives the difference between aural and tonal

is that aural is of or pertaining to the ear or aural can be of or pertaining to an aura while tonal is of or relating to tones or tonality.

As a noun tonal is

an animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.

aural

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the ear.
  • Of or pertaining to sound.
  • Derived terms
    * aurally * binaural * cervicoaural * dextraural * sinistraural

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to an aura.
  • Anagrams

    * English contranyms

    tonal

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia tonal)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  • (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  • (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
  • Antonyms
    * atonal

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * tona, tonalli

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
  • * 1989 , Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean , page 122:
  • When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
    See also
    * nahual

    Anagrams

    * * *