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peach
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?ch, IPA(key): /pi?t??/
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin m?lum persicum, from Ancient Greek ????? ???????? (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”).
Noun
peach (plural peaches)
- A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- (color) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
- (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
Synonyms
- (tree): peachtree
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Abenaki: biches (from the plural peaches)
- ? Arapaho: biisib (possibly)
- ? Bengali: ??? (pic) (probably)
- ? Malay: pic (probably)
- ? Maori: p?titi (possibly)
- ? Swahili: pichi (probably)
- ? Thai: ??? (píit)
Translations
Adjective
peach (comparative more peach, superlative most peach)
- Of or pertaining to the color peach.
- Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
- Synonyms: agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, peachy, rosy
- Antonyms: disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant
See also
- laetrile
- nectarine
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
- Peach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedic? (“entangle”). See impeach.
Verb
peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
- Synonyms: sing, squeal, tattle; see also Thesaurus:rat out
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 9:
- "But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection.
- "He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverwl will?"
- (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.
Derived terms
- peacher
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
peach (uncountable)
- (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
Derived terms
- blue peach
- green peach
- peach tourmaline
Anagrams
- Pecha, chape, chapé, cheap
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tone
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, and tonus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: t?n, IPA(key): /t??n/
- (US) enPR: t?n, IPA(key): /to?n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
tone (plural tones)
- (music) A specific pitch.
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- General character, mood, or trend.
- Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
- (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
- Children often read with a tone.
- (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
- c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope
- The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.
- c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- This picture has tone.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
Synonyms
- (an interval of a major second): whole tone
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)
- (transitive) to give a particular tone to
- (transitive) to change the colour of
- (transitive) to make (something) firmer
- (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour
- (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
Synonyms
- (give a particular tone to):
- (change the colour of): color/colour, dye, paint, tint
- (make firmer): firm, firm up, tone up
- (harmonize): harmonise/harmonize
- (utter with an affected tone):
Derived terms
- betone
- toned
- tone down
- toner
- tone up
- tony, toney (affected tone)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.
Pronoun
tone
- (now dialectal) the one (of two)
Further reading
- tone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tone in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- ETNO, Eton, Note, Teno, ento-, note, teno-
Afrikaans
Noun
tone
- plural of toon
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /to?n?/, [?t?o?n?]
Noun
tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)
- tone
- note
Declension
Verb
tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)
- to sound
- to tone
- to tint
References
- “tone” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
tone
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen
Anagrams
- toen
Latin
Noun
tone
- vocative singular of tonus
Middle English
Pronoun
tone
- the one (of two)
- So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).
Noun
tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)
- a tone (sound, colour etc.)
Derived terms
- halvtone
References
- “tone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²tu?n?/
Noun
tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural tonar, definite plural tonane)
- a tone (sound, colour etc.)
Derived terms
- halvtone
- tonekunst
References
- “tone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
tone (ma class, plural matone)
- drop
Tokelauan
Etymology
Borrowed from English ton.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?to.ne/
- Hyphenation: to?ne
Noun
tone
- ton
Alternative forms
- tane
References
- R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 397
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