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单词 monotone
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monotonen.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɒnətəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin monotonus; Greek μονότονος.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin monotonus (adjective) unvarying in tone (5th or 6th cent.) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek μονότονος steady, unwavering (in music only as adverb, μονοτόνως ) < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + τόνος tone n. Compare Italian monotono (17th cent.), French monotone (1710; 1750 in extended use), Spanish monótono (1797), German monoton (18th cent.; < French), all recorded only as adjectives. Compare slightly earlier monotony n. With use as adjective compare slightly earlier monotonical adj.In sense B. 3 after German monoton (C. Neumann Ueber die Nach Kreis-, Kugel- u. Cylinderfunctionen Fortschreitenden Entwickelungen (1881) ii. 26); compare earlier monotonic adj. 2, monotonous adj. 3.
A. n.
1.
a. A continuation or uninterrupted repetition of the same vocal tone; an utterance continued or repeated without change of pitch.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > monotonous sound > instance of
monotony1636
monotone1644
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > same pitch > note of same pitch > repetition of
monotony1636
monotone1644
repetend1874
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 136 Shun similitude of gesture; for as a monotone in the voyce, so a continued similitude of gesture.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 61 I mean that dangerous Affectation of the Monotone, or solemn Sameness of Pronunciation, which to my Ear is insupportable.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 224 The pigeon kind excepted, whose slow plaintive continued monotone has something sweetly soothing in it.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 135 Frank, the large slow-flying, fish-eating, heron... Our name is probably derived from its monotone—which is supposed to be like fr a a a nk.
1880 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night 28 He murmured thus and thus in monotone.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 367 The speech is often monosyllabic, a whispered monotone.
1906 H. Black Edinb. Serm. 184 There is no music in a monotone.
1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth vi. 67 Speaking in a dull, hopeless monotone, as though he had the bitter lesson by heart.
1981 M. Angelou Heart of Woman vii. 101 His replies to questions..were generally given in a monotone.
b. In extended use.
ΚΠ
a1849 E. A. Poe Bells in Poems (1859) 77 Tolling, tolling, tolling In that muffled monotone.
1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 76 Drearily solemn runs a monotone, Heard through breathless hush.
1907 J. Joyce Chamber Music xxxv Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the winds cry to the waters' Monotone.
1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 237 On the bare boards..The rain drummed monotones.
1995 T. Clark Like Real People 52 Empty boat with lone sail, creaking rudder Sullen monotone of breakers on wood drums.
c. figurative. A monotonous continuation or recurrence of something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun]
unchangeabilityc1400
equability1531
unchangeableness1548
constancy1593
immutability1593
immutableness1610
oneness1611
unvariableness1611
irrevocability1613
unalterableness1620
fixedness1626
irreversiblenessa1631
equableness1641
invariability1644
irrevocableness1649
undiminishableness1653
invariableness1654
incommutability1674
intransmutability1692
inalterability1715
inconvertibleness1727
inchangeability1773
unimprovability1814
irreversibility1824
inconvertibilitya1832
unarbitrarinessa1834
changelessness1840
inadaptability1840
unalterability1847
unvaryingness1851
monotone1856
unmodifiableness1876
unchangingness1878
unchangedness1880
irreformability1883
plateau1897
homoeostasis1926
invariance1939
plateauing1957
the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > a recurrence
sitheOE
timec1275
return1585
retrieve1595
reoccurrence1788
monotone1856
re-run1922
replay1957
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 172 Its history [sc. that of science] is a monotone of endurance and destruction.
1874 J. R. Lowell Agassiz in Atlantic Monthly May 593 Our social monotone of level days, Might make our best seem banishment, But it was nothing so.
1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender 61 In a dull dense monotone of pain.
1955 R. Church Over Bridge (1956) xiii. 162 We were home again, with our monotone of life humming along.
1991 Harper's Mag. Dec. 74/1 Like all serious winds, they were the z-coordinate for our little stretch of plain, a move up from the Euclidian monotone of furrow, road, axis, and grid.
2. Monotony or sameness of style in composition or writing; a thing composed in a monotonous style.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness
humdrum1727
woodenness1854
pedestrianism1858
monotone1871
blue-bookiness1909
1871 T. W. Higginson Atlantic Ess., Let. to Young Contrib. 78 An essay may be thoroughly delightful without a single witticism, while a monotone of jokes soon grows tedious.
1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) v. 169 ‘In Memoriam’..although a monotone, [is] no more monotonous than the sounds of nature,—the murmur of ocean [etc.].
1903 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 65 The whole story is a miracle in monotone.
1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde vi. 159 Ward praised Wilde for avoiding rhetorical tricks—a generous response to what others called a monotone.
3. A pictorial representation using only one tone or colour; the use of, or process of using, only one basic colour or tone. Cf. monotint n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > representation in one colour
monochrome1851
monotintc1875
monotone1896
monocolour1963
mono1983
1896 Boston (Mass.) Youth's Compan. 3 Dec. (advt.) Single and double-page engravings in monotone.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 114/3 The rug in monotone completely covers the floor.
1995 Camcorder User Apr. 78/3 This model is an unashamed point-and-shooter from JVC which features little bar..Twilight, Monotone and Fog exposure modes.
B. adj.
1. (Of a sound, utterance, etc.) continuing on or repeating the same note; having little or no variation in tone or pitch; (of a musical instrument) able to produce sounds of only one pitch. Also (in extended use): lacking variety; dull, repetitive. Cf. monotonous adj. 1, 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [adjective] > monotonous sound
droning1601
drony1754
monotone1770
monotonous1774
toneless1833
droned1863
strumming1887
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > repeated at same pitch
monotonical1752
monotone1770
monotonous1774
monotonic1797
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety
humdrum1553
humdrumming1698
humdrummish1731
monotonous1774
samely1799
jog-trot1826
jog-jog1837
jog-trotty1853
same1891
clock-punching1920
monotone1926
samey1929
ho-hum1969
rumdum1973
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 494 The Europeans conclude..the Chinese tongue..is barren, monotone, and hard to understand.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xxxvi. 33 The dulcimer, a monotone instrument shaped like an Æolian harp.
1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea IV. v. 100 As lulling as the monotone waves.
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 6 The accent being either plain, i.e. monotone; or medius [etc.].
1901 R. Bridges Milton's Prosody 78 The monotone recitation of the prayers in cathedrals.
1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 133 One felt that she had built up for herself an intricate and perhaps rather lonely life, monotone beneath the great shadow of William.
1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 54 At times she is monolingual, monotone, At others mistress of the Tower of Babel.
1991 Traveller Spring 50/2 Sadly the book reads like this: measured, detached and emotionally monotone.
2. Of or in a single colour.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull
tedious1412
weary1549
plumbeousa1586
ungayed1670
deserta1674
prosaic1692
pedestrian1716
languishing1741
unglittering1813
prosy1837
urned1849
monotone1862
bluebooky1872
stodgy1874
pedestrial1941
1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. 195 The dark figure of a watchman soldier pacing his weary round through the monotone snow, appeared the only living object.
1932 E. Bowen To North xxvi. 287 Dust and lamp-light made the pale houses monotone.
1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 24 They're away to their best start in years, these plaids and stripes and monotone tweeds.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 156/4 The use of this monotone effect is largely responsible for making the room seem much larger than it is.
1991 Hair Flair Jan. 53/2 There will also be a move away from monotone blocks and streaks of colour to the layering of various deeper, richer colours to enhance natural highlights and lowlights in hair.
3. Mathematics. = monotonic adj. 2. Cf. monotonous adj. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > relating to expressions > relating to functions
generating1671
exponential1704
discontinuous1803
functional1806
odd1812
periodic1820
syzygetic1850
convex1858
graphometric1865
polycyclic1869
subrational1875
synectic1876
variational1879
polyhedral1881
holomorphic1886
tropical1887
Gudermannian1888
monogeneous1888
monotonous1890
oscillating1893
monotonic1901
monotone1903
orthogonalized1909
schlicht1925
concave1942
deconvolved1974
unate1978
1903 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 311 We now shall.., after the precedent of Stieltjes, construct for every even convergent a monotone function ϕn of a real variable u.
1937 Duke Math. Jrnl. 3 489 We assume that ϕ(ρ) is completely monotone in 0≦ρ<∞.
1970 R. B. Ash Basic Probability Theory viii. 255 ϕ has a monotone nondecreasing power function.
1990 IMA Jrnl. Appl. Math. 44 181 Traditional proofs of the upper and lower solution existence results for nonlinear elliptic equations use monotone iteration schemes based on the maximum principle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

monotonev.

Brit. /ˈmɒnətəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: monotone n.
Etymology: < monotone n. Compare French monotoner to repeat one's movements to the same rhythm (1775). Compare earlier monotonize v.
transitive. To recite, speak, or sing in a monotone; to chant or intone on a single note.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > chant
sing1297
entunec1374
entonec1485
intonec1485
chant1526
rechant1600
cant1652
tone1674
intonate1795
monotone1864
incant1959
1864 J. W. Brooks & J. Place (title) On monotoning Prayer.
1880 F. G. Lee Church under Q. Elizabeth I. 313 The parish clerk..was duly authorized by the Primate of England..to monotone the Psalms at Mattins and Evensong.
1899 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 184 He generally seized the opportunity..to monotone long extracts.
1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue iii. 67 He could see in the streets far below him the steady stream of black-garbed slaves,..monotoning their dismal paean of triumph.
1994 i-D Oct. 118/1 His faith really lies in a dated Euromodernism rather than ‘Ohm Sweet Ohm’, as Kraftwerk once monotoned.

Derivatives

ˈmonotoning n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting
chantingc1400
intonation1788
entonement1849
intonement1849
intoning1863
monotoning1878
intone1886
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > chanting or chanted
sung1473
chanted1565
canting1748
chanting1838
intoning1863
monotoning1878
1878 Littell's Living Age 4 May 303/1 The advocates of the modern practice of intoning and monotoning may find some countenance for the habit in the fact that there was a time when to sing out and to read out were one and the same thing.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 159 The wind and I keep both one monotoning tongue.
1977 Gramophone May 1724/2 Another splendid feature is the impressive monotoning of the Gospel by Metropolitan Anthony.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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