The distinction between tone and accent as nouns is that tone is a specific pitch in music, but accent is a higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to separate it from others or to stress it in linguistics. The difference between tone and accent as verbs is that tone refers to giving a specific tone to something, but accent refers to expressing the accent something audibly; to utter with accent.
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