intoned
past simple and past participle ofintone
intone
verb[T]
formaluk/ɪnˈtəʊn/us/ɪnˈtoʊn/to say somethingslowlyandseriouslyin avoicethat does notriseorfallmuch:
[+ speech]"Let uspray," thepriestintoned to hiscongregation.
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- breathe
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- cut glass
- dialectal
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- fluent
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- signer
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- synecdoche
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Examplesofintoned
intoned
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The difference can also be heard at the beginning of the introit,intonedby a smaller group of singers only in the older version.
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Presumably so named because these chants wereintonedon the steps of the ambo or altar.
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The performance note with which the composer prefaces the score provides the key to its aesthetic effect: the text isintonedas if it sounds.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Discrimination and evocation of affectivelyintonedspeech in patients with right parietal disease.
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Both of her readings are fluent, color fullyintoned, and with carefully enunciated literary standard pronunciation.
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How are questions and exclamationsintoned?
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A price, heintoned, has to be paid for freedom.
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Nevertheless, we need to beware of this concept being hijacked and used with overweening ideological verbosity, encroaching on new areas and beingintonedin support of questionable technical proposals.
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The purpose is to obtain justlyintonedmajor thirds (with a frequency ratio equal to 5:4).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Expressed as justlyintonednumeric ratios, these are 12/5, 4/5, 8/5, 5/12, and 5/4.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They have a range of calls from a short, sharp kuk to moreintonedkyuk, kew, kee-yow calls.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Shouts may beintonedor nonintoned (definite in pitch/sung or indefinite in pitch/spoken).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The therapist also signs while singing theintonedphrases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The one thing that would set them free as the mages who imprisoned themintonedthousands of years earlier.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.According to their compositions the "tritos echoi" and the "plagios tetartos" were entirelyintonedenharmonic according to the "phthora nana".
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