英语词汇“tonic accents”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tonic /tonˈik/

adjective

Relating to tone or tones

Producing tension, eg of the muscles

Giving tone and vigour to the system (medicine)

Giving or increasing strength

Of or being the first note of a scale (music)

Of or relating to the main or primary stress on a word

noun

A medicine that invigorates and strengthens

Any person or thing that enlivens or invigorates

The first note of a scale, a keynote (music)

A key or chord based on the keynote (music)

Tonic water

A stressed syllable in a word

ORIGIN: Gr tonikos relating to stretching or tones

tonicity /ton-isˈi-ti/ noun

The property or condition of having tone

Mode of reaction to stimulus

The healthy elasticity of muscular fibres when at rest

tonic accent noun

Emphasis given to a particular syllable through a change in pitch

tonic sol-fa noun (music)

A system of notation and teaching devised by Sarah Glover (1785–1867) and developed by John Curwen (1816–80), using modified sol-fa syllables and their initial letters for the notes of the scale with doh (see doh¹) as the keynote for the major keys and lah (see la¹) for the minor, and dividing the bar by colons, dots and inverted commas

tonic spasm noun (medicine)

A prolonged uniform muscular spasm, opp to clonic spasm or clonus

tonic water noun

Aerated quinine water