monotone
suomi-englanti sanakirjamonotone englannista suomeksi
monotoninen
monotonia
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monotone englanniksi
1940, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), ''Journal of the Asiatic Society'', page 95:
- The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Being, or having the salient properties of, a function.
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(syn of).
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1799, John Walker, ''Elements of Elocution'', Cooper and Wilson, page 309:
- It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.
(quote-journal)|month=October|year=1846|volume=XXIX|issue=4|page=190|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOmf2vSWTQYC&pg=RA1-PA190|oclc=1017756595|passage=There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
To speak in a monotone.
in monotone
(l)
whose speech is monotone
boring due to uniformity or lack of variety; monotonous
(de-adj form of)
(feminine plural of)
(infl of)
(monikko) nb|monoton
(monikko) nn|monoton