The difference between Paint and Tone
When used as nouns, paint means a substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied, whereas tone means a specific pitch.
When used as verbs, paint means to apply paint to, whereas tone means to give a particular tone to.
Tone is also pronoun with the meaning: the one (of two).
check bellow for the other definitions of Paint and Tone
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Paint as a noun:
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
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Paint as a noun (in the plural):
A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
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Paint as a noun (basketball, slang):
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
Examples:
"The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint."
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Paint as a noun (uncountable, paintball, slang):
Paintballs.
Examples:
"I am running low on paint for my marker."
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Paint as a noun (poker, slang):
A face card (king, queen, or jack).
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Paint as a noun (computing, attributive):
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
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Paint as a noun:
Makeup.
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Paint as a verb (transitive):
To apply paint to.
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Paint as a verb (transitive):
To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
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Paint as a verb (transitive):
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
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Paint as a verb (transitive):
To create (an image) with paints.
Examples:
"to paint a portrait or a landscape"
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Paint as a verb (intransitive):
To practise the art of painting pictures.
Examples:
"I've been painting since I was a young child."
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Paint as a verb (transitive, computing):
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
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Paint as a verb (transitive, figuratively):
To depict or portray.
Examples:
"She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud."
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Paint as a verb (intransitive):
To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
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Paint as a verb (transitive, military, slang):
To direct a radar beam toward.
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Tone as a noun (music):
A specific pitch.
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Tone as a noun (music):
(in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
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Tone as a noun (music):
(in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
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Tone as a noun:
The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
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Tone as a noun:
General character, mood, or trend.
Examples:
"Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening."
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Tone as a noun (linguistics):
The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
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Tone as a noun (dated):
A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
Examples:
"Children often read with a tone."
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Tone as a noun (literature):
The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
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Tone as a noun (obsolete):
State of mind; temper; mood.
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Tone as a noun:
The shade or quality of a colour.
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Tone as a noun:
The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
Examples:
"This picture has tone."
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Tone as a noun:
The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus
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Tone as a noun (biology):
The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
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Tone as a noun (biology):
Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
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Tone as a verb (transitive):
to give a particular tone to
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Tone as a verb (transitive):
to change the colour of
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Tone as a verb (transitive):
to make (something) firmer
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Tone as a verb (intransitive):
to harmonize, especially in colour
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Tone as a verb (transitive):
To utter with an affected tone.
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Tone as a pronoun (now, _, dialectal):
The one (of two).