What's the difference between tome and tone?

Tome


Definition:

  • (n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differing patterns of calcium distribution were observed in the ameloblast seemingly associated with the appearance of Tomes' process.
  • (2) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
  • (3) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (4) This kind of material also could be seen in the spaces between the Tomes' processes and the enamel matrix, and in the vesicles of the Golgi apparatus.
  • (5) In examination of ground sections of human third maxillary molar teeth, the granular layer of Tomes was shown to consist of expansion of dentinal tubules.
  • (6) The Arsenal manager had said that he might have to delve for the tome to reacquaint himself with the meaning of crisis.
  • (7) Without colchicine in the medium, many small vesicles containing HRP were located in the Tomes' processes, whereas only a few were present with colchicine at concentrations above 5 microM.
  • (8) Preparations from EFAD rats showed a gradual decrease of the tome with time.
  • (9) Twice as much calmodulin and calpactin II were detected in cell bodies as in Tomes' processes, but calcimedin was more abundant in the latter.
  • (10) The disturbances in mineralization were characterized by accumulations of unmineralized enamel matrix at the secretory regions of Tomes' process within 1 h after injection.
  • (11) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (12) On the floor was a pile of McQueen’s beloved reference books: Living Jewels, a huge tome of exquisite closeups of beetles, and another on German artist Rebecca Horn ’s installation piece Moon Mirror.
  • (13) Finally, there was a slower secretion of labeled proteins out of Tomes' processes between 1 and 4 h after injection.
  • (14) A bookshop clerk confirmed that politically sensitive tomes, such as those produced by the missing booksellers, would no longer be stocked.
  • (15) Into this depressing scene drops a 250-page radical tome from Dominic Cummings , Michael Gove's charismatically influential adviser.
  • (16) Newton coined the term in 1687 in his famous tome, Principia Mathematica, and for 200 years scientists were happy to think of mass as something that simply existed.
  • (17) A similar arrangement of wavy rows of ameloblasts at the level of distal terminal web and Tomes' processes was also seen in monkey teeth.
  • (18) Abraham is said to have pursued the role running C4 doggedly, quietly breakfasting opinion formers, publishing an impressive art house tome about his two-year rebranding of the UKTV digital channels, led by Dave, and trying to woo anyone who might be close to the decision-making process.
  • (19) Large type HID-TCH-SP stain deposits, approximately 10 nm in diameter, were detected on the interdigitating cell membrane of Tomes' process, inside some secretory granules, on the lateral cell membrane of stratum intermedium, in the basement membranes associated with outer enamel epithelium and endothelial cells of capillary, within the so-called hole region, and in the enamel matrix near future enamel-cement junction.
  • (20) Until Martin Blogg quoted us a line or two from Simon Inglis' historical tome Villa Park 100 Years, that is: "Aston Villa Football Club was founded by pupils of the Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel Sunday school.

Tone


Definition:

  • (n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
  • (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
  • (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
  • (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
  • (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
  • (n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
  • (n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
  • (n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  • (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
  • (n.) State of mind; temper; mood.
  • (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
  • (n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
  • (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
  • (v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.
  • (v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
  • (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (2) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
  • (3) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
  • (4) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
  • (6) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
  • (7) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
  • (8) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
  • (9) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
  • (10) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
  • (11) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
  • (12) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (13) Inhibition of the production or action of these substances will allow for vasodilatation, and it is probable that perinatal pulmonary vascular tone reflects a balance between local prostaglandin and leukotriene production.
  • (14) Subject evaluations in accordance with the intensity levels of tones, i.e.
  • (15) Maximum expiratory flow on partial flow-volume curve at 25% forced vital capacity (PEF25) was measured as an index showing basal bronchomotor tone.
  • (16) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
  • (17) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
  • (18) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
  • (19) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
  • (20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).

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