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Another word for tenor

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Noun

  1. The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse

      1. Continuous pressure of one part against another, as of a rafter against a wall
      2. The essential meaning; the point:
      3. The basic meaning or purpose; point; force
      1. A course or apparent course toward some purpose, object, or result; drift
      2. An inclination to move or act in a particular direction or way; constant disposition to some action or state; leaning; bias; propensity; bent
      3. Movement or prevailing movement in a given direction:
      1. A material of a particular kind or constitution.
      2. The physical matter of which a thing consists; material
      3. Material possessions; goods; wealth:
      1. Intention; object
      2. Meaning; tenor; sense; drift
      3. Meaning that is presented, intended, or implied; import.
      1. What is meant; what is intended to be, or in fact is, signified, indicated, referred to, or understood
      2. A sense of importance or purpose:
      3. Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
      1. (Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
      2. A purpose; object; aim
      3. Meaning or import
      1. A gradual movement or change in some direction or toward some end or purpose; trend; tendency
      2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.
      3. General meaning or purport; tenor:
      1. (Music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
      2. A source of great worry or stress; weight:
      3. The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.
      1. The degree of accuracy of a weapon or of a person aiming a weapon or propelled object:
      2. The object to be attained; intention or purpose
      3. The ability to hit a target or intended point:
    See also:

    meaning

  2. The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement

      1. That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value:
      2. Density; body:
      3. That which has mass and occupies space; matter.
      1. Intention; object
      2. Meaning that is presented, intended, or implied; import.
      3. Intention; purpose:
      1. Something imported:
      2. Importance; significance:
      3. The act or business of importing (goods)
      1. Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.
      2. A being driven or carried along, as by a current of air or water or by circumstances
      3. (Electronics) A deviation or variation of a quantity, as voltage, from its assigned value
      1. The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.
      2. The amount of a disease-causing entity present in an organism.
      3. (Nautical) The amount of cargo that a vessel can carry.
      1. Quantity:
      2. A quantity
      3. A number; a sum.
    Idioms:
    See also:

    meaning

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Another word for tenor

Noun

  1. One with a high masculine voice

    See also:

    musician

  2. Tendency

      1. A gradual change in position:
      2. The course on which something is directed or driven
      3. A random course, variation, or deviation
      1. An inclination in a particular direction.
      2. A fad or fashion style.
      3. A general or prevailing tendency or course, as of events, a discussion, etc.; drift
      1. Development in a particular way; progress:
      2. (Sports) A designated route or area on which a race is held:
      3. A typical, natural, or customary manner of proceeding or developing:
      1. The simple or fundamental tone of a musical sound as distinguished from its overtones
      2. The prevailing or predominant style, character, spirit, trend, morale, or state of morals of a place or period
      3. Any one of the full intervals of a diatonic scale; whole step
    See also:

    tendency

    inclination

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Sentence Examples

  • This, however, does not disturb the tenor of the following arguments.

  • Still more remarkable are the tone and tenor of this royal law.

  • To suppose Disraeli satisfied with the excuses made for his adoption of the "dishing" process is forbidden by the whole tenor of his teaching and conduct.

  • But having failed, he allowed the paper, and also a second by Chevenix of the same tenor in 1805, to be read without avowing that it was he himself who had originally detected the metal, although he had an excellent opportunity of stating the fact in 1804 when he discussed the substance in the paper which announced the discovery of rhodium.

  • But there is no mention of the Van den Endes in Spinoza's correspondence; and in the whole tenor of his life and character there is nothing on which to fasten the probability of a romantic attachment.

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