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Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
Djimon Hounsou

Meaning of "tone down" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TONE DOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TONE DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tone down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES TONE DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tone down in the English dictionary

The definition of tone down in the dictionary is to moderate or become moderated in tone.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TONE DOWN

tone
tone arm
tone cluster
tone colour
tone control
tone control knob
tone deafness
tone language
tone poem
tone row
tone series
tone up
tone-deaf
tone-setter
toned
toneless
tonelessly
tonelessness
toneme
tonemic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TONE DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of tone down in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tone down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TONE DOWN

Find out the translation of tone down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tone down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tone down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

淡化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bajar el tono
570 millions of speakers

English

tone down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे टोन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تخفيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смягчить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tom baixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টোন ডাউন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

atténuer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nada ke bawah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abschwächen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トーンダウン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다운 톤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Muni mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giai điệu xuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொனி கீழே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खाली टोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sakinleş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

attenuare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stonować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пом´якшити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

atenua
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετριάσω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toon af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tona ner
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tone ned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tone down

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TONE DOWN»

The term «tone down» is regularly used and occupies the 68.923 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TONE DOWN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tone down

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QUOTES WITH «TONE DOWN»

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Djimon Hounsou
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONE DOWN»

Discover the use of tone down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tone down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Acrylic Painting: A Complete Guide
If you want to tone down another color, black is always the worst color to add. You'll get far more interescing results by adding a complementary color or some other unlikely hue: for example, a touch of red will tone down a green, a touch of  ...
Wendon Blake, 1997
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Encyclopaedia of the History of Arabic Science 3 Vol Set
diesis 128/125 or quarter of a tone tone down a bit by 7 H, commas or 3/4 of a tone or (1125/1024; 12/11) 3 tone up a bit by 1minime semitone, 3 c.,or the equivalent (25/24) tone down a bit by 1 maxime semitone, 6c. or equivalent (27/ 25) 4 ...
Roshdi Rashed, 2002
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Stimulus-Response Compatibility: An Integrated Perspective
... indication of the correct response, then subjects should react faster when the toneresponse rule (i.e., stimulus-response, or S-R mapping) corresponded with the frequency-space stereotype (i.e., high tone = up response and low tone = down ...
R.W. Proctor, T.G. Reeve, 1989
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Identity and Status in the Translational Professions
Another fifteen respondents (24%) said they never toned anything down; another two only at the client's request; another “do[es] not tone down, but explain[s]”; another “only correct[s] factual errors.” Two more said they had never encountered ...
Rakefet Sela-Sheffy, Miriam Shlesinger, 2011
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Influence of Aural Training in Music on the Perceptive ...
... only half as wide, if the most different tone sought after already were the interval of a 16th tone off the reference tone, so the other two examples to choose from would have to be in between the reference tone and its by a 16 tone down- tuned ...
Friederike Flottmann, 2010
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The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook: Awakening Your Divine Ba
When you exhale, loudly direct a tone down through your soul channel all the way to the activation point between your prostate and the tube to your penis. Repeat this step until you feel that this channel is fully open and vibrating. Experiment ...
Amorah Quan Yin, 1997
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Upton Sinclair 23- The Jungle Story of a Patriot Book of ...
Tone down The Captive! Tone down the faith and rapture of my whole life, until it is what the reading publicwill find natural!And tone down the LiebesTodand tone down the Choral Symphonyand Epipsychidion and King Lear! Swounds, show ...
Upton Sinclair
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Painting Animal Friends
3 round and Titanium White to soften and tone down the blue shadow line at the crest of the mane, then add hair tufts from the mane, tail and legs. Tone some of the middle value grays and light blue gray areas by selectively painting some of ...
Jeanne Scott, 2005
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Writings on Music: Music of the modern era
The next step in the original tone- ole tone up; in the inversion it will be one whole tone down, :rab, the notes will be F, A flat, F sharp, etc., reading the basic . ckwards. In the crab of the inversion, the notes of the inverted e read backwards.
Nicolas Slonimsky, Electra Yourke, 2004
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Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal ...
Earlier in the same work, Zarlino talks about compositions transposed by signature accidentals a whole tone down and up and offers two polyphonic examples of the former type, but - significantly - none of the latter. 18 While an accidental ...
Karol Berger, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONE DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tone down is used in the context of the following news items.
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Judge advises NFL, NFLPA, to "tone it down"
Berman, who will handle Tom Brady's federal court hearing, advised the NFL and the NFLPA in an order issued Thursday to "tone down the rhetoric," and should ... «Comcast SportsNet New England, Jul 15»
2
Branstad: Water Works should 'tone down' criticism of ag pollution
"The Des Moines Water Works ought to just tone it down and start cooperating and working with others, like Cedar Rapids is doing, and other communities in the ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
3
Community Board Tells Developer to 'Tone Down' Pavilion Theater …
PARK SLOPE — Locals slammed the proposed design for a new five-story condo building next to the Pavilion Theater at a meeting Thursday, with some ... «DNAinfo, Jul 15»
4
Donald Trump: I'll tone down the attacks if elected president — but …
But if the real estate mogul and former reality show host were elected president, he'd tone it down. “I would deal very differently,” Trump told CNN's Anderson ... «Yahoo Politics, Jul 15»
5
Windsor begs Detroit: Tone down the noisy parties!
A late-night party at Chene Park on Sunday was a little too wild for our Canadian neighbors across the river. The Ultimate White Party, an annual riverfront event ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
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GOP leaders fear damage to party's image as Donald Trump …
... from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
7
Organizers tone down Carolina Day anniversary
This scene from last year's Carolina Day parade won't be repeated Saturday as organizers have toned down the anniversary event in the wake of the shooting at ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jun 15»
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Christian neighbour tells woman to 'tone down' her 'relentlessly gay …
A US homeowner has been told by her Christian neighbour to tone down her "relentlessly ... Myself and Others in the neighbourhood ask that you Tone It Down. «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
9
China, US tone down rhetoric but far from South China Sea solution
SINGAPORE After a months-long row over Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea, the United States and China were relatively restrained at Asia's top ... «Reuters, May 15»
10
Twitter Tries to Tone Down the Chirping
Twitter today looks pretty much like it did five years ago, a constantly updating, reverse-chronological feed of thoughts and jokes from the accounts you've ... «Bloomberg, Apr 15»

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