Noun

(wikipedia peach) (peaches)

A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

(senseid) The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

* 1915? , T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach ?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

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, year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon.}}

The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

Noun

(en noun)

(music) A specific pitch.

(music) (in the diatonic scale ) An interval of a major second.

(music) (in a Gregorian chant ) A recitational melody.

The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

General character, mood, or trend.

Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

(dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

Children often read with a tone .

(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

* W. C. Bryant

Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

* Bolingbroke

The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

The shade or quality of a colour.

The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

This picture has tone .

The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus

(biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.