demitone

A semitone.

Before X-ray we used to talk glibly, and sometimes I suspect without justification, of differences of demitones and half demitones in percussion of the chest and slight enlargements of the heart.

I am somewhat annoyed to be obliged to transpose everything for this concert because of the G. Gaveau harpsichord, which is constructed a demitone too low.

A tiny amount; a shade of difference; a gradation; a nuance.

I would speak to you, I have seen this opulence banishing by shades, by demitones!

demitone short of the snapping point, makes her suffering sympathetic — admirable even, for its seems a triumph to function in the face of crippling nerves.

A muted tone; a subdued manner of speaking.

Some gutteral sounds, uttered in a curiously resonant demitone, were exchanged between the guardians of the rural community and the shikaree.

The voice is non-committal; level and tuned to a plein-air quality innocent of the velvet demitones I know so well.

A color that is only partly saturated.

Dr. van Monckhoven, of Ghent, displays several remarkable enlargements printed in carbon, all distinguished by delicacy of demitone; and Mr. Edward Viles heads the scientific list with microscopi enlargments to the extent of two hundred diameters.

In the distance is a pale glint of light, but otherwise this painting is in a demitone of grey .

Something that is necessary to produce harmony and completeness.

The middle class is the. demitone of human society, custodian of the balance, and no fair social order could exist without the cooperation of this class.