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Intune vs Intone - What's the difference?

intune | intone |

As verbs the difference between intune and intone

is that intune is to intone while intone is to give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.

intune

English

Verb

(intun)
  • To intone.
  • (Webster 1913)

    intone

    English

    Verb

    (inton)
  • (lb) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  • (lb) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
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  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • (lb) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
  • Derived terms

    * intonable * intonate * intonation * intonational * intonationally * intonator * intonement * intoner

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