monotone
Collocations
5ADJ.
delicious, english, hollow, increasing, slow
VERB + MONOTONE
function, speak
MONOTONE + NOUN
business-like, island, quality, r
PREP.
in, in, on, than
ADV.
completely
Definitions
adj
Having a single unvaried pitch.
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.
Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.
Synonym of monochrome.
noun
A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
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 firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.
A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
verb
To speak in a monotone.
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6The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
WiktionaryIn the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.
WiktionaryThe function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.
WiktionaryWhen Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
WiktionaryIt 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 f
WiktionaryThere is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
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