Monotone vs Monotoned - What's the difference?
monotone | monotoned |
(of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch
* 1940 , Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), Journal of the Asiatic Society , page 95:
* 1998 , Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business'', Georgetown University Press, ''Research on Telephone vs. In-Person Administrative Hearings , page 76:
(mathematics) property of a function to be either always decreasing or always increasing
* The function is monotone while is not.
A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound
* 1799 , John Walker, Elements of Elocution , Cooper and Wilson, page 309:
(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.
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(monotone)
(of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch
* 1940 , Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), Journal of the Asiatic Society , page 95:
* 1998 , Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business'', Georgetown University Press, ''Research on Telephone vs. In-Person Administrative Hearings , page 76:
(mathematics) property of a function to be either always decreasing or always increasing
* The function is monotone while is not.
A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound
* 1799 , John Walker, Elements of Elocution , Cooper and Wilson, page 309:
(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.
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As verbs the difference between monotone and monotoned
is that monotone is to speak in a monotone while monotoned is past tense of monotone.As an adjective monotone
is having a single unvaried pitch.As a noun monotone
is a single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.monotone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone , business-like quality.
Noun
(en noun)- When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
- It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at fir?t in a low monotone'; a ' monotone , though in a low key, and without force, is much more ?onorous and audible than when the voice ?lides up and down at almo?t every word, as it mu?t do to be various.
Derived terms
* monotonic * monotonous * monotonyVerb
(monoton)monotoned
English
Verb
(head)monotone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone , business-like quality.
Noun
(en noun)- When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
- It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at fir?t in a low monotone'; a ' monotone , though in a low key, and without force, is much more ?onorous and audible than when the voice ?lides up and down at almo?t every word, as it mu?t do to be various.
