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Definition of timbre in English: timbrenoun ˈtambəˈtæmbər 1The character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity. trumpet mutes with different timbres mass noun a voice high in pitch but rich in timbre Example sentencesExamples - Different composers describe perceiving different colours with different keys, instrumental timbres, or harmonic structures.
- The plainchant was delivered faultlessly, and gave a flavour of the complementary timbres of the male voices.
- This changes both the timbres and the chords that are available to the violinist.
- How did these women match their pitch, vibrato, and timbres with such precision?
- The difference between string timbres and percussion timbres is intentionally blunted here.
Synonyms tone, sound, sound quality, voice, voice quality, colour, tone colour, tonality, resonance, ring - 1.1mass noun The distinctive quality or character of someone or something.
you must demonstrate your moral timbre as a human being Example sentencesExamples - In the wake of the politics of the late 1990s, Americans may be sensitive to moral timbre.
- His work continues to present a double vision, one touched by both calamity and glee, and whose self-consciously public language underscores its highly personal timbre.
- Maybe it's this lack of awareness about the moral timbre of what he writes and says that causes Corn to be so upset about my description of his book as not unsympathetic to Shackley.
- But in Britain, the revolution is of an altogether more polite timbre: it's a revolution in taste.
- If you seem to lack presidential timbre, you will likely feel frozen out.
Origin Mid 19th century: from French, from medieval Greek timbanon, from Greek tumpanon 'drum'. Rhymes amber, camber, caramba, clamber, Cochabamba, gamba, mamba, Maramba, samba Definition of timbre in US English: timbrenounˈtæmbərˈtambər The character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity. trumpet mutes with different timbres a voice high in pitch but rich in timbre Example sentencesExamples - This changes both the timbres and the chords that are available to the violinist.
- How did these women match their pitch, vibrato, and timbres with such precision?
- The difference between string timbres and percussion timbres is intentionally blunted here.
- The plainchant was delivered faultlessly, and gave a flavour of the complementary timbres of the male voices.
- Different composers describe perceiving different colours with different keys, instrumental timbres, or harmonic structures.
Synonyms tone, sound, sound quality, voice, voice quality, colour, tone colour, tonality, resonance, ring
Origin Mid 19th century: from French, from medieval Greek timbanon, from Greek tumpanon ‘drum’. |