Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tonic
Tonic
tonic
n. & adj. --n. 1 an invigorating medicine. 2 anything serving to invigorate. 3 = tonic water. 4 Mus. the first degree of a scale, forming the keynote of a piece (see KEYNOTE 3). --adj. 1 serving as a tonic; invigorating. 2 Mus. denoting the first degree of a scale. 3 a producing tension, esp. of the muscles. b restoring normal tone to organs. Phrases and idioms tonic accent an accent marked by a change of pitch within a syllable. tonic sol-fa Mus. a system of notation used esp. in teaching singing, with doh as the keynote of all major keys and lah as the keynote of all minor keys. tonic spasm continuous muscular contraction (cf. CLONUS). tonic water a carbonated mineral water containing quinine. Derivatives tonically adv. Etymology: F tonique f. Gk tonikos (as TONE)
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I. adjective Etymology: Greek tonikos, from tonos tension, tone Date: 1649 1. characterized by tonus , producing or adapted to produce healthy muscular condition and reaction of organs (as muscles), 2. increasing or restoring physical or mental tone ; refreshing, yielding a ~ substance, relating to or based on the first tone of a scale , bearing a principal stress or accent, of or relating to speech tones or to languages using them to distinguish words otherwise identical, ~ally adverb II. noun Date: 1797 the first tone of a major or minor scale ; keynote, 2. an agent (as a drug) that increases body tone, one that invigorates, restores, refreshes, or stimulates , a liquid preparation for the scalp or hair, a carbonated flavored beverage, ~ water, a voiced sound ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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