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"(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking."
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
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"word": "تَنْغِيم"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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"word": "entonación"
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"code": "az",
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "intonasiya"
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "intanácyja",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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"word": "інтана́цыя"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "entonació"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "抑揚"
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"roman": "yìyáng",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "抑扬"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "语调"
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"word": "腔調"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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"word": "zinsmelodie"
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"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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"word": "tónalag"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "intonaatio"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "sävelkulku"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "intonation"
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"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "entoación"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Satzmelodie"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Sprachmelodie"
},
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"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Intonation"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tongebung"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "אינטונציה"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "intonáció"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonazione"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "intonēshon",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "イントネーション"
},
{
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"alt": "よくよう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yokuyō",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "抑揚"
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"alt": "ごちょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gochō",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "語調"
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"alt": "抑揚",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eogyang",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "억양"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "intoneisyeon",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "인토네이션"
},
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"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonācija"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "intonacija",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "интонација"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "intonasi"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "hā"
},
{
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"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "intonacij",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "интонаций"
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"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "ojsem",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "ойсем"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "intonasjon"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "tonefall"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âhang-e jomle",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "آهنگ جمله"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âhang",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "آهنگ"
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"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonacja"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "entonação"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "intonácija",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "интона́ция"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "интонација"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "intonacija"
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{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonácia"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonacija"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "entonación"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "kiimbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "intonation"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "ohang",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "оҳанг"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "intonatsiya",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "интонатсия"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tam-nɔɔng-sǐiang",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "ทำนองเสียง"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "tonlama"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "entonasyon"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "intonácija",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інтона́ція"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "ngữ điệu"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 4 2 2 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "sự ngâm nga"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech."
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"ref": "1805, Titus Lucretius Carus, The nature of things: a didactic poem",
"text": "This additional cause of the intonation of thunder, together with the simile with which it is illustrated, is copied from our poet, both by Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii, 431, and Isidorus, Orig. xiii.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1808, Richard Cumberland, The Exodiad: A Poem, page 375",
"text": "As when sulphureous fires, within the caves\nOf earth long pent, with intonation loud\nBurst through the riven rocks, and far as eye\nCan reach their furious devastation spread,\nSo sudden, so resistless was the force\nOf this blasphemer's bold appeal to arms.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1824, Sir James Bland Burges afterwards Lamb, The Dragon Knight: A Poem in Twelve Cantos, page 77",
"text": "In anxious expectation stood the crowd,\nWhen the shrill clarion's intonation loud\nGave notice that the challenger drew nigh.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1825, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué, The Magic Ring; a Romance, from the German, Etc, page 287",
"text": "but Sir Hugh still exclaimed, —\"Louder, old man, far louder!\" till at last the minstrel, in obedience to his best and dearest friend, struck the harp with such violence, that not only did the strings break, but even the instrument itself burst asunder with a long melancholy intonation.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument."
],
"id": "en-intonation-en-noun-5Nk7tT5S",
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},
{
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{
"text": "Her intonation was false."
}
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"Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise."
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Intonation"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Intonierung"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tongebung"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ansatz"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tonhöhenfeinabstimmung"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "intonacij",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"word": "интонаций"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "ojsem",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"word": "ойсем"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonacja"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 1 87 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "intonácija",
"sense": "singing or playing in good tune or otherwise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інтона́ція"
}
]
},
{
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"Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest."
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"tags": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rečitativ",
"sense": "intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "речитатив"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 4 7 9 75",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Intonation"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 4 7 9 75",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Vorsingen der Anfangsworte"
},
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"_dis1": "5 4 7 9 75",
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "intonacij",
"sense": "intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice",
"word": "интонаций"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 4 7 9 75",
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "ojsem",
"sense": "intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice",
"word": "ойсем"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 4 7 9 75",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intonacja"
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"word": "인토네이션"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "آهنگ جمله"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "kiimbo"
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "ทำนองเสียง"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "ngữ điệu"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking",
"word": "sự ngâm nga"
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},
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"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"intonation (all senses)"
],
"links": [
[
"intonation",
"intonation#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-intonation.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-intonation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-intonation.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-intonation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-intonation.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "intonation"
}
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