1A singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.

1. 1.1 A singer with a tenor voice.
   男高音歌手
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   • He was a tenor with the male voice choir for over 40 years.
   • The society is currently looking for tenors, basses, altos and sopranos to join the adult choir.
   • Any singers, especially tenors and basses, would be most welcome to join.
   • He was an opera singer who became an agent for divas and tenors.
   • Once he warms up, the other standout singer is the tenor.
   • The piece opens with a solo tenor singing to a relatively straightforward piano accompaniment.
   • There is an interview with my favourite tenor in Classical Singer Magazine.
   • She greatly enjoyed the songs of tenors such as John McCormack and Frank Patterson.
   • The tenor was in poor voice, and the fans let him know it.
   • He has sung as a tenor for the European Chamber Opera.
   • The all-male line-up is two countertenors, one tenor, two baritones, and one bass.
   • The work requires a full orchestra and tenor and baritone soloists.
   • He was a great tenor singer and loved to entertain and delight the crowds.
   • He often ruminated over whether he was a tenor or a baritone, the upper register of his voice being naturally weaker than the lower.
   • It was very unusual for a lyric tenor to sing all those notes in full voice.
   • He is a lightish tenor with a lovely voice and great promise.
   • There are seven women and five men, comprising five sopranos, three mezzo sopranos, two tenors and three baritones.
   • The most famous Italians of the period were performers: the conductor Arturo Toscanini and the tenor Enrico Caruso.
   • The vocalists met a tenor who wanted to become their lead singer.
   • The tenor who sings Arturo has a fearsome vibrato.
2. 1.2 A part written for a tenor voice.
   男高音声部，定旋律声部
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   • The second movement, a tenor solo movement, depicts the young lover recollecting his sweet days with the departed.
   • He offers one of the most pleasing tenors that I have heard in a long time.
3. 1.3usually as modifier An instrument, especially a saxophone, trombone, tuba, or viol, of the lowest pitch but one in its family.
   次中音乐器
   a tenor sax

   次中音萨克斯管。

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   • He took up the clarinet and tenor sax with some style.
   • He tours to support his latest work featuring tenor sax, flute and alto flute.
   • The leader plays soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes.
   • He avoided conventional chords and melodies on his 30-year-old tenor trombone.
   • He has a big, beautiful tone on the tenor sax.
   • I recognized the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane and my heart started to race.
   • She could play a mean tenor saxophone.
   • The tuba, the xylophone, and the tenor guitar make excellent choices.
   • His jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophones and arrangements pervade the proceedings.
   • There's a lot of full-on tenor sax blasting over ferocious percussion barrages.
   • If you love the tenor saxophone, you owe it to yourself to hear him.
   • He chose to play the tenor saxophone, as it was one of the only instruments left for him to choose other than the flute.
   • This threesome functions like a jazz trio, particularly when Parker plays tenor sax.
   • There are very few pieces for tenor sax.
   • He taught himself to play the clarinet then tenor sax.
   • It's a six-CD box set; they're all short, original songs on tenor saxophone.
   • This CD sees the introduction of the tenor guitar to his repertoire.
   • He was a tenor saxophonist and a violinist.
   • I'm standing just outside the band room, clutching my heavy tenor saxophone.
   • His tenor sax almost steals the show.
4. 1.4 The largest and deepest bell of a ring or set.
   （组钟中的）最低音钟
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   • The existing bells, including the tenor weighing 1.25 tons, were cast in 1932.
   • The deep tenor bell rang out for a minute before the crowd sang the hymn.
   • The abbey's tenor bell chimed for the 101st time.
   • First to be raised was the tenor bell, which is the oldest and largest.
   • The worst case is when the tenor bell and the smaller bell opposite it are moving in the same direction at the same time.
   • The effect of hearing the tenor bell at the end of each row is pleasing to the ear.

1usually the tenor ofin singular The general meaning, sense, or content of something.

辩论的一般要领。

1. 1.1usually the tenor ofin singular A settled or prevailing character or direction, especially the course of a person's life or habits.
   （尤指生活，习惯的）一般趋向；稳定的进程
   the even tenor of life in the kitchen was disrupted the following day

   平静安定的厨房里的日子第二天被扰乱了。

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   • The tenor of his press conferences is different from that of past presidents.
   • From what I hear, the tenor of book publishing seems to be turning up, imitating the stock market.
   • Eventually the even tenor of the days at the castle was interrupted by preparations for the festival.
   • His visit disturbed the even tenor of life in the areas of the City through which he passed.
   • Such moments set the tenor for the place, where a sense of old-fashioned decorum co-exists with informality.
   • Once these jurors were excused and their replacements seated in the jury box, the whole tenor of the day changed.
   • It was at this critical moment that the fundamental tenor of Sephardic life began to change into its modern form.

2Law
The actual wording of a document.

3Finance
The time that must elapse before a bill of exchange or promissory note becomes due for payment.