tonic
IPA: tˈɑnɪk
noun
- A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
- Tonic water.
- (US, Eastern Massachusetts, dated) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
- (figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
- (music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
- (music) The triad built on the tonic note.
- (phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
verb
- (medicine, archaic) To restore or invigorate.
adjective
- (physics, pathology) Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
- Restorative, curative or invigorating.
- (medicine, neuroscience) In a state of continuous unremitting action.
- (music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
- Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
- Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
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