tenor
['tɛnɚ]
n. 稳程, 路, , 意, 誊, 票据期, 音

a. 音

[] (票,汇票等)期



tenor
[ noun ]

1. the adult male singing voice above baritone

<noun.communication>

2. the pitch range of the highest male voice

<noun.attribute>

3. an adult male with a tenor voice

<noun.person>

4. a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life

<noun.cognition>
nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways

5. the general meaning or substance of an utterance

<noun.cognition>
although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument

[ adj ]

1. (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass

<adj.all>
a tenor sax

2. of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

<adj.all>
tenor voice

Tenor \Ten"or\, n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a
holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See
{Tenable}, and cf. {Tenor} a kind of voice.]
1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of
continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course;
career.

Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. --Gray.

2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse;
the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent;
meaning; understanding.

When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
--Shak.

Does not the whole tenor of the divine law
positively require humility and meekness to all men?
--Spart.

3. Stamp; character; nature.

This success would look like chance, if it were
perpetual, and always of the same tenor. --Dryden.

4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words
and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only
the substance or general import of the instrument.
--Bouvier.

5. [F. t['e]nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called
because the tenor was the voice which took and held the
principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the
other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It.
tenore.] (Mus.)
(a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually
belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the
harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four
parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base,
and originally the air, to which the other parts were
auxillary.
(b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that
play it.

{Old Tenor}, {New Tenor}, {Middle Tenor}, different
descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods,
by the American colonial governments in the last century.


high-pitched \high-pitched\ adj.
1. high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices.
Opposite of {low}. [Narrower terms: {adenoidal, pinched,
nasal}; {altissimo}; {alto}; {countertenor, alto};
{falsetto}; {peaky, spiky}; {piping}; {shrill, sharp};
{screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing};
{soprano, treble}; {sopranino}; {tenor}]

Syn: high.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched
roof.

Syn: steeply pitched, steep.
[WordNet 1.5]