ETYM French accent, Latin accentus; ad + cantus a singing, canere to sing. Related to Cant.
1. Special importance or significance
2. Distinctive manner of oral expression; SYN. speech pattern.

ETYM Old Eng. pich, as. pic, Latin pix.
1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue; SYN. tar.
2. The action or manner of throwing something.
3. The throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter; SYN. delivery.
4. The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.
5. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; SYN. rake, slant.
6. A high approach shot in golf; SYN. pitch shot.
7. (British) A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk).
8. An all-fours card game in which the first card led is a trump; SYN. auction pitch. + prikaži više

ETYM French, a bell to be struck with a hammer, sound, tone, stamp, crest, in Old Fren., a timbrel. Related to Timbrel.
Distinctive quality of a sound.
(Homonym: timber).
The distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); SYN. timber, quality, tone.
In music, the tone color, or quality of tone, characteristic of a particular instrument or voice. + prikaži više

ETYM French ton, Latin tonus a sound, tone, from Greek tonos a stretching, straining, raising of the voice, pitch, accent, measure or meter, in pl., modes or keys differing in pitch.
In music, the quality of sound—for instance, different strings of a violin may be able to sound the same note (pitch) given certain fingerings, but each string has a different tone. A tone can also be a plainsong melody; it is also the US term (or wholetone) for a note, an interval consisting of two semitones, for example the interval of C–D.
1. A steady sound without overtones; SYN. pure tone.
2. The quality of a person's voice; SYN. tone of voice.
3. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author.
4. A musical interval of two semitones; SYN. whole tone, step, whole step.
5. (Linguistics) A pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages. + prikaži više

The possessive case of the personal pronoun thou.