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n. The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume.

n. The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

n. The crest on a coat of arms.

n. See 1st timber.

n. The crest on a coat of arms.

n. The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

n. Same as timbe.

n. An old spelling of timber, timber, timber.

n. A tambourine; a timbrel.

To play the timbrel.

n. 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.

n. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

"I think it is what they call the timbre that is different."

sound property   

timbrel arch   

timber    tone    partial   

vibrancy    plangency    colouration    stridency    nasality    stridence    colour    register    sonorousness    ringing   

clang tint    clang   

Kimber    imber    limber    timber   

intonation    drawl    contralto    cadence    inflection    loudness    resonance    lilt    purr    undertone