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  1. Tones

    Tones is the second studio album by guitarist Eric Johnson, released in 1986 through Reprise Records. The first two tracks, "Zap" and "Emerald Eyes", are re-recordings from Johnson's then-unreleased 1978 debut album Seven Worlds. "Zap" would later receive a nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the 1987 Grammy Awards

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  1. tonesnoun

    Plural noun of tone.

    The piano when played by the composer gave the most beautiful tones and sounds so joyful to the ear of all who had the pleasure of hearing it.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 16, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TONES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tones is ranked #44109 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tones surname appeared 488 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tones.

    54.9% or 268 total occurrences were White.
    33.4% or 163 total occurrences were Black.
    9% or 44 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for tones »

  1. notes

  2. onset

  3. set on

  4. seton

  5. SONET

  6. steno

  7. stone

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tones in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tones in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of tones in a Sentence

  1. Dante Alighieri:

    There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  2. Rudyard Kipling:

    There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  3. Loren Weisman:

    Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softness of your voice on the phone and in person.

  4. Esther Valdes-Clayton:

    I just want everyone to understand that the racial tones, the classicism that was displayed as well as the colorism that was displayed was evident to every Latino from the West Coast to the East Coast.

  5. Mukaibar Shah:

    Covid rumor was spreaded by speaking about it 24 hours by media journalists, through newspapers, mobile ring tones , news websites front page and many other channels so that people can't think anything but only corona by listening about this media hype created virus round the hours and then doctors started looting patients and its booty commission went to every level of politics. Still they are spreading rumors about it and fools wearing masks accept it.

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