Usually means: Attitude conveyed through writing style.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tone, tone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tone, tone: Wordnik
  7. tone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tone, tone: Wiktionary
  9. tone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. TONE: Dictionary.com
  13. tone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tone (DC band), Tone (Jeff Ament album), Tone (TVXQ album), Tone (fiction), Tone (linguistics), Tone (literary), Tone (literature), Tone (music), Tone (musical instrument), Tone (name), Tone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tone: Rhymezone
  19. tone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tone: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. tone: Free Dictionary
  23. tone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Tone: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. tone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. tone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Tone: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. Tone: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  4. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  7. -tone: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  8. Tone: Lexicon of Linguistics
  9. Tone: Literary Terms
  10. TONE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tone: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tone: Medical dictionary
  4. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. TONE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. tone: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tone: The Folk File
  3. Tone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)
  3. Tone: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  4. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  5. Tone: Beauty & Health Glossary
  6. TONE: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  7. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  8. Tone: Coffee Glossary
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See toned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tone)

noun:  (music) A specific pitch.
noun:  (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
noun:  (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
noun:  The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
noun:  (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
noun:  (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
noun:  The shade or quality of a colour.
noun:  The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
noun:  The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
noun:  (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
verb:  (transitive) to give a particular tone to
verb:  (transitive) to change the colour of
verb:  (transitive) to make (something) firmer
verb:  (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
noun:  A male given name, a short form of Anthony/Antony
noun:  A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

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