Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume.
- noun Distinctive character.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play the timbrel.
- noun In acoustics, that characteristic quality of sounds produced from some particular source, as from an instrument or a voice, by which they are distinguished from sounds from other sources, as from other instruments or other voices; quality; tone-color.
- noun A tambourine; a timbrel.
- noun Same as
timbe . - noun An old spelling of
timber , timber, timber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See 1st
timber . - noun (Her.) The crest on a coat of arms.
- noun (Mus.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; See
Tone , and Partial tones, underPartial .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of a
sound independent of itspitch andvolume . - noun heraldry The
crest on acoat of arms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think it is what they call the timbre that is different.
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Music is niocely mathematical, both in timbre, chords, and the time series used.
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I think it is what they call the timbre that is different.
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On her debut, the aptly-titled Solo (released through Interscope Digital Distribution), increasingly accomplished songwriting connects through her emotive, lithe-yet-lived-in timbre.
Twilight Lexicon » Former Bella Cullen Project Singer Releases CD 2010
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Human words, not a howl, but the timbre was the same.
YA BOOK CLUB: SHIVER – CHAPTERS 11-13 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Human words, not a howl, but the timbre was the same.
YA BOOK CLUB: SHIVER – CHAPTERS 11-13 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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The orchestra played the pulsing chords elegantly, with electronic synthesizer touches recalling the timbre of a glass harmonica.
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The timbre is the authoritative essence of Theatrical Knight, one that lent RSC gravitas to Stewart's reign as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise, before he left Hollywood seven years ago to kickstart a late-flourishing classical-theatre phase.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Stuart Husband 2012
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The timbre is the authoritative essence of Theatrical Knight, one that lent RSC gravitas to Stewart's reign as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise, before he left Hollywood seven years ago to kickstart a late-flourishing classical-theatre phase.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Stuart Husband 2012
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"I don't have an effing thing to say about the occasion," grumbled Simmons, in his signature timbre, which is akin to whooshing gravel across a metal flatbed.
MaryW commented on the word timbre
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 19June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word timbre
am I going deaf, or do people pronounce this like 'tamber'?
October 14, 2017