Converse of object

• hush: I remember my mother telling me in hushed tones about some ' fall from grace. ' Maybe you can enlighten me more... .

• lower: UPDATE - Issue 21 - Spring 2005 Are we lowering the tone?

• set: Marion stormed up the first lead at VS to set the tone for the week.

• patronize: They continually referred to her by her first name without her permission, using a patronizing tone.

Adjective modifier

• dulcet: Within five minutes the entire crowd were playing musical chairs and dancing round the room to the dulcet tones of the Spice Girls.

• polyphonic: Polyphonic ring tones, infra red port for connectivity & vibrate alert are just a few of the other features to be included.

• muted: Painted in the muted tones of history, Luc Tuymans offers a chilling ultimate truth about humankind.

• mellow: The stock pipe, although heavy, sounds much better with its quiet yet deep mellow tone.

• neutral: The landing and all first floor rooms have been newly carpeted in a stylish neutral tone.

• conversational: Write with a casual, conversational tone rather than a formal tone such as textbook diction.

Modifies a noun

• audiometry: Pure tone threshold audiometry to evaluate hearing in children who are able to co-operate.

• generator: Control the ELECTRIBE·R from an external sequencer or keyboard and it becomes a MIDI expansion tone generator.

Noun used with modifier

• dial: Instead of buying a tuner, figure out the pitch of the dial tone on your telephone.

• ringing: Melody Tones This allows you to select from a range of pre-set options, which ringing tone your phone will operate with.

• muscle: Can you check to see how well defined his muscle tone is?

• ring: The ring tone can help connect that fan to the artist.

• skin: I mean pink, not skin tone, really pink.

• ringback: Customers of SK telecom receive a targeted SMS with details of ringback tones that would be of particular interest.

Preposition: of

• voice: The tone of voice should be matched to the words too.