Tone

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The word tone is used in several different fields with different meanings.

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In music, tone may be synonymous with:

Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of a note or sound. See also pure tone.
Note, the name of a pitch, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its note value.
Whole tone. Cf. semitone
Timbre

In geography:

River Tone - a river in England
Tone River - a river in the Kanto region of Japan
Tone, Ibaraki, a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
Tone District, Gunma, a district in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

In people:

Theobald Wolfe Tone - regarded as the father of the Irish republicans.
Tone Loc - An early popular west coast rapper famous for his hits "Funky Cold Medina" and "Wild Thing."
The Tone - Famous Oxford mathematics tutor and talented rower."

In other fields:

Setting tone, a writer's attitude to their subject matter or audience; the distinctive mood created by this.
Tone (linguistics) refers to discrete pitches or pitch contours used by certain languages in a meaningful manner
Muscle tone, the firmness or strength of a tissue or organ.
Tone, a World War II cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy named after the river
Tones, a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
Tone, a 1970s band led by David Sancious
Tone, a band in Washington, DC [link]
Dual-tone multi-frequency or tone dialing (as opposed to pulse dialing)

(artistic tone) describing the tone or value of an art piece

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