Crossword clues for toning
toning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tone \Tone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toned; p. pr. & vb. n. Toning.]
To utter with an affected tone.
To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
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(Photog.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment. To tone down.
To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower tone to.
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(Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius.
Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly.
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Fig.: To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of; to soften.
The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictures.
--Palfrey.To tone up, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen.
Wiktionary
n. Use of colour; tone. vb. (present participle of tone English)
Wikipedia
Toning on a coin is the change of colour brought about through oxidisation. Toning can range from beautiful to ugly, and thus can alternately add or detract from a coin's value.
Usage examples of "toning".
Like all others of this type, its action is insensible, producing gradual changes, arousing the excretory glands to remove morbid materials, and at the same time toning the secretory organs.
He wanted to give the accessors back home a small feeling of excitement as the plane swept low across the endless steppes of dried mud, which meant toning down his body’s instinctive unease.
To pamper herself, she mixed up a toning face pack of elder flowers, yogurt and kaolin powder, lounging in the tub with harp music and iced juice while it worked its magic.
The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity.
From white it turned blood-red, the reddishness most intense around the edges of the hole blown in the wall and toning down from there as it spread outward.
Patching and grafting, toning, regrowths, transplanting of hair, replacements— all were but delaying tactics against the relentless pressure of age.
The gym was filled with the latest and greatest muscle-building and toning equipment: shiny new rowing machines, Stair-Masters, treadmills, Gravitrons.