- notes
- High status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"
- A characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm"
- A brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment"
- A short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
- A comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
- A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;
- Make mention of;
- A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"
- Make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning"
- A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
- Notice or perceive; "She noted
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Definitions of: ONSET
- onset
- (n.) A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
- (n.) A setting about; a beginning.
- (n.) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
- (v. t.) To assault; to set upon.
- (v. t.) To set about; to begin.
anagrams of:onset
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- seton
- (n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
- steno
- Stenographer
- stone
- (n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
- (n.) A precious stone; a gem.
- (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
- (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
- (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
- (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
- (n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
- (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
- (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
- (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
- (n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
- (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
- (n.) To make like stone; to harden.
- (n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- (n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- (n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
- tones
- The quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
- The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
- Give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"
- The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"
- Change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"
- Change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"
- Vary the pitch of one's speech
- Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
- A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of th