Noise and Tone

Noise

Noise noun - Loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound.

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Tone and noise are semantically related in music topic. In some cases you can use "Tone" instead a noun "Noise".

Nearby Words: noisy, noisily, noiseless, noised, noiselessly

Tone noun - A distinctive way of putting ideas into words.

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Noise and tone are semantically related in music topic. Sometimes you can use "Noise" instead a noun "Tone".

Nearby Words: toneless, toned, toning, tonal

low	low noise	low tone
similar	similar noise	similar tone
normal	normal noise	normal tone
usual	usual noise	usual tone
Other adjectives: deep, actual, sad, quiet, ominous, different, red, creepy, high-pitched.

The odds of anything remotely recognisable as prime numbers or similar at interstellar distances are pretty much nil, but a single repeating tone or a noise like this could carry much further.

Source: First Contact Math
In a later episode, Shaggy and Scooby are immune to music that forces people to dance to exhaustion because Shaggy's tone deaf and to dogs, music is little more than noise.

Source: Disability Immunity
Add in the erratic noise music to really ramp the disturbing tone up to 11 and you've got yourself a scene that would give you nightmares before it gave you wet dreams.

Source: Literature / Requiem for a Dream

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