Assertion: tone | /r/HasProperty | characteristic of manner
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text: "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" timbre, quality, timber sound property - an attribute of sound harmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities coloration, colouration, color, colour - the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant stridence, stridency, shrillness - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner