Definition of tonic in English:

tonic

noun ˈtɒnɪkˈtɑnɪk

1A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being.
补药，滋补品
Example sentencesExamples
- Milk thistle extract - long used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine - may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins.
- Practitioners of Chinese medicine use it as a tonic and restorative to promote health and longevity.
- Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life.
- Its reputation for stimulating the immune system makes it an excellent tonic for treating coughs, colds, flu and other infections, as well as for easing allergies.
- Herbal medicines and tonics called jamu are both home blended and mass produced.
- Patent medicine ads for ague tonics and liver pills filled the back pages of local agricultural publications.
- Jatamansi is an effective sedative and brain tonic, enhancing concentration and memory.
- Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash.
- This practice, to a large extent, is responsible for the sale of many useless tonics and drugs without any medical practitioner's prescription.
- ‘Digestive enzymes,’ vitamins, and tonics were frequently dispensed as ‘psychological medicine’.
- She took herbal tonics to regain physical strength.
- It fights cholesterol, and is used as a tonic and a laxative.
- Asian, American and Siberian ginsengs are the most renowned herbal tonics in Chinese medicine.
- Milk Thistle has a long history as a medicinal plant which can be used as a liver stimulant, for detoxification and as a liver tonic.
- I tried many tonics, tablets and exercise but all was in vain.
- The treatment prescribed for such phenomena included complete rest, massage, various tonics and special diets, sometimes even electroshock therapy.
- My new eating plan included a herbal tonic to complement my diet and encourage general well-being.
- In the early 1900s it became the main stimulant drug used in most of the tonics and elixirs that were developed to treat a wide variety of illnesses.
- Herbal tonics have the ability to nourish the nervous system and enhance resilience; they are excellent when one is tense, anxious or depressed, tired and run down.
- This clinic uses a special tonic that is meant to stall the growth of the cancer cells.
Synonyms
stimulant, restorative, refresher, cordial
Medicine analeptic, roborant
informal pick-me-up, bracer, livener
1. 1.1 Something with an invigorating effect.
  具恢复精力功效的东西
  being needed is a tonic for someone at my age
  对于我这年纪的人来说，对别人有用是件令人振奋的事情。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
  This sea change in music distribution is already upon us, and could provide the tonic for the revival of those beleaguered music companies.
  These were the words that worked like a tonic on the renowned music composer.
  The effect is like a tonic, and the fact that her character - and others similarly drawn - are all still very funny is a tribute to the director's talents.
  For a chef at the top of his game, his humility is a tonic.
  He is definitely a tonic in this depressing age of faceless conductors.
  To a borderline workaholic like me, his attitude is a complete tonic.
  I can't believe it - it was the perfect tonic after my heart operation.
  Love it or hate it, you're sure to find it an invigorating tonic.
  With commentary and analysis, its members provided a tonic for much of the mainstream media's excesses.
  Contrition isn't much in fashion these days, but it's still a tonic for the guilty soul - and who amongst us doesn't bear regrets for at least a few decisions.
  I imagine all your adventures have served as a restorative tonic to the high-speed life of a newsman.
  Back in 1981, when this triple bill was new and the Met a more conservative place than it is today, such an original evening of opera was a positive tonic.
  For a person like me, who sees too much speed in all areas of modern life, his introspective takes on American music were the perfect tonic.
  Laughter is an invigorating tonic that heightens and brightens the mood, gently releasing us from tensions and social constraints.
  The brash and disrespectful attitude of the music was a tonic, while the band's lack of anonymity broke the mould.
  Any time I spend a few days in the company of these happy souls, it always feels like a complete tonic.
  The food certainly tasted wonderful and was the perfect tonic before the long flight home.
  The sight of the team's captain leading the side out may provide just the tonic needed after weeks of bad fortune.
  Galleries provide a tonic for the overstimulated senses
  Synonyms
  boost, stimulant, fillip, pleasure
  stimulus, spur, push
  informal shot in the arm, pick-me-up, reviver
2
short for tonic water
Example sentencesExamples
- However, compared to diet cola or sugar-charged tonic or lemonade, soda water wins by a mile.
- In summer, drinkers take gin and tonic on the lawn or recline on the armchairs on the wooden verandah, while two great restaurants inside specialise in tasty Thai and Indian cuisine.
- This has what was doubtless the desired effect: a mouthful of gin and tonic comes back out through my nose.
- People are going back to basics like Scotch on the rocks and Tanqueray and tonic.
- I now prefer the intoxicating blend of Russian caravan and lapsang souchong to the heady mix of vodka and tonic, going to bed early to sleeping in late, cook books to comic books.
- I like gin based drinks: Gin and tonic is usually a safe bet in any bar.
- Yes, I know that the tonic has sugar in it (you can, of course, use diet), but with this quantity divided among eight it isn't that much per person.
- And someone told me I should have a gin and tonic.
- Very, very expensive - the last time I went, I paid £7 for a gin and tonic.
- Some tonics have less sodium than club soda or many soft drinks.
- They used to give us freebie haircuts in exchange for endless vodkas and tonics.
- While I wait, I nurse a vodka and tonic and attempt to intelligently assess my surroundings.
- Ten years on, I like my vodka and tonic in a well-cut piece of glass with a few roughly hewed hunks of ice and a generous squeeze of real lime, thank you very much.
- The boy brings us vodka and tonic which we drink on the balcony.
3Music
The first note in a scale which, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music.
〔乐〕主音
Example sentencesExamples
- The first of these sentences, bars 1 to 9, unequivocally secures D as the tonic.
- The penultimate piece, a ‘Song without Words’, is centred on F, the work's main tonic.
- This, technically speaking, is tonal music, but you'd be hard pressed to identify the tonic.
- Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic.
- The music doesn't seem ‘anchored’ in a key, even though you can almost always find a tonic.

adjective ˈtɒnɪkˈtɑnɪk

1Giving a feeling of vigour or well-being; invigorating.
有活力的；令人振奋的
a tonic body shampoo
Example sentencesExamples
- As such it is a common ingredient in tonic formulas, particularly for elderly or debilitated people.
- The range features a cleansing gel, tonic lotion, facial mask, day lotion and concentrate and a night gel as well as a blemish control stick and cream.
- His letters mention ‘excellent spirits’ and tonic air full of wonderful odours.
- Ashwagandha is unique as a tonic herb in that it is exceptionally easy to cultivate and is ready for harvest after only one year of growth.
- Spontaneous carbonation or bubbles that sprung from natural mineral springs were believed to relieve common ailments with their tonic properties.
- Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb.
- This excellent tonic herb is high in mineral content, with a preference for supporting the liver.
- Adults still dutifully head home to mother for tonic soups when a hectic all-work-and-no-play lifestyle leaves them feeling under the weather.
- Digestive tonic properties and early experimental findings that its long-term use promotes the heart and vascular system are other feathers in the cap for this herb.
- So the mere presence of a fixed percentage of ginsenosides does not guarantee the tonic properties of a well-aged root.
- The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas.
- But it is neither a variation on one of the old iron supplements nor is it a food, although its adherents say it has tonic properties and you do apply it to the body.
- Dang Quai is one of the most popular Chinese tonic herbs for women.
- Flavonoids are the most powerful health bestowing constituent of tonic herbs.
2Music
Relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale.
〔乐〕主音的
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, the tonic D, which has held sway over much of the movement's main tonal and harmonic thrust, is thrown into some degree of crisis.
- The superimposition of the tonic and dominant forms of the motif does not bring a resolution, only an uneasy symbiosis.
- After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor.
- At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass.
- A tonic resolution such as that at the end of this piece seems to me have quite an ironic quality.
3Phonetics
Denoting or relating to the syllable within a tone group that has greatest prominence, because it carries the main change of pitch.
〔语音〕（音节）有主重音的
Example sentencesExamples
- Their usual intonation pattern is a rising tone on and after the tonic syllable, but, when rhetorical or emphatic, they are said with a falling tone.
4Relating to or restoring normal tone to muscles or other organs.
（与）肌肉恢复正常紧张性（有关）的；（与）器官恢复正常紧张性（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- Black haw, which has been described as having a uterine tonic effect, has been used to prepare women for labor.
- The former is designated a slow twitch muscle fiber, and the latter as slow tonic muscle fiber.
- The places that we see, these slow tonic muscle fibres, are almost the exact places where the muscles are shaping the surface of the tongue, and shaping them to do the shapes that we know are producing our speech.
- Further, the number of both synapses and active zones per length terminal is significantly larger for the tonic axon in the leg extensor muscle.
- Unphosphorylated, attached cross-bridges in tonic mammalian smooth muscle have a very slow rate of release of ADP.
1. 4.1Physiology Relating to, denoting, or producing continuous muscular contraction.
  〔生理〕（肌肉）紧张的，强直的
  Example sentencesExamples
  This tonic contraction defines the lower esophageal sphincter.
  The tonic contractions, in contrast, clearly regulate the emptying of fluids from the stomach.
  Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
  This illustrates the essential place of the closure of the pylorus by tonic contraction in the prevention of such reflux.
  This tonic contraction is mostly myogenic, due to special properties of this smooth muscle, but it is modified by excitatory and inhibitory nerves.

Derivatives

tonically

adverb

The lung, however, does not become inflamed or infected, in part because alveolar and airway macrophages express a number of antiinflammatory molecules that tonically suppress pulmonary inflammation.
Example sentencesExamples
- In Hirschsprung disease, the aganglionic colon remains spastic or tonically enhanced and unable to relax.
- The lower esophageal sphincter is tonically contracted at rest to seal the lumen in a rosette at the esophagogastric junction.
- The EDL is adapted for relatively infrequent bursts of phasic activity, whereas the soleus is tonically activated to maintain posture.
- The influence of hypercapnia on tonically discharging motor units is certainly of interest, and future studies are needed.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French tonique, from Greek tonikos 'of or for stretching', from tonos (see tone).

Rhymes

anachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, diatonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, iconic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Platonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, sardonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, transonic, ultrasonic

Definition of tonic in US English:

tonic

nounˈtɑnɪkˈtänik

1A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigor or well-being.
补药，滋补品
Example sentencesExamples
- Its reputation for stimulating the immune system makes it an excellent tonic for treating coughs, colds, flu and other infections, as well as for easing allergies.
- The treatment prescribed for such phenomena included complete rest, massage, various tonics and special diets, sometimes even electroshock therapy.
- Patent medicine ads for ague tonics and liver pills filled the back pages of local agricultural publications.
- Practitioners of Chinese medicine use it as a tonic and restorative to promote health and longevity.
- This clinic uses a special tonic that is meant to stall the growth of the cancer cells.
- It fights cholesterol, and is used as a tonic and a laxative.
- Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life.
- ‘Digestive enzymes,’ vitamins, and tonics were frequently dispensed as ‘psychological medicine’.
- She took herbal tonics to regain physical strength.
- I tried many tonics, tablets and exercise but all was in vain.
- Milk thistle extract - long used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine - may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins.
- Asian, American and Siberian ginsengs are the most renowned herbal tonics in Chinese medicine.
- Milk Thistle has a long history as a medicinal plant which can be used as a liver stimulant, for detoxification and as a liver tonic.
- Herbal tonics have the ability to nourish the nervous system and enhance resilience; they are excellent when one is tense, anxious or depressed, tired and run down.
- Jatamansi is an effective sedative and brain tonic, enhancing concentration and memory.
- My new eating plan included a herbal tonic to complement my diet and encourage general well-being.
- Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash.
- Herbal medicines and tonics called jamu are both home blended and mass produced.
- In the early 1900s it became the main stimulant drug used in most of the tonics and elixirs that were developed to treat a wide variety of illnesses.
- This practice, to a large extent, is responsible for the sale of many useless tonics and drugs without any medical practitioner's prescription.
Synonyms
stimulant, restorative, refresher, cordial
1. 1.1 Something with an invigorating effect.
  具恢复精力功效的东西
  being needed is a tonic for someone at my age
  对于我这年纪的人来说，对别人有用是件令人振奋的事情。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I can't believe it - it was the perfect tonic after my heart operation.
  He is definitely a tonic in this depressing age of faceless conductors.
  To a borderline workaholic like me, his attitude is a complete tonic.
  I imagine all your adventures have served as a restorative tonic to the high-speed life of a newsman.
  Love it or hate it, you're sure to find it an invigorating tonic.
  For a person like me, who sees too much speed in all areas of modern life, his introspective takes on American music were the perfect tonic.
  The effect is like a tonic, and the fact that her character - and others similarly drawn - are all still very funny is a tribute to the director's talents.
  The sight of the team's captain leading the side out may provide just the tonic needed after weeks of bad fortune.
  He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
  With commentary and analysis, its members provided a tonic for much of the mainstream media's excesses.
  This sea change in music distribution is already upon us, and could provide the tonic for the revival of those beleaguered music companies.
  The brash and disrespectful attitude of the music was a tonic, while the band's lack of anonymity broke the mould.
  Laughter is an invigorating tonic that heightens and brightens the mood, gently releasing us from tensions and social constraints.
  Contrition isn't much in fashion these days, but it's still a tonic for the guilty soul - and who amongst us doesn't bear regrets for at least a few decisions.
  For a chef at the top of his game, his humility is a tonic.
  The food certainly tasted wonderful and was the perfect tonic before the long flight home.
  Galleries provide a tonic for the overstimulated senses
  These were the words that worked like a tonic on the renowned music composer.
  Back in 1981, when this triple bill was new and the Met a more conservative place than it is today, such an original evening of opera was a positive tonic.
  Any time I spend a few days in the company of these happy souls, it always feels like a complete tonic.
  Synonyms
  boost, stimulant, fillip, pleasure
2
short for tonic water
Example sentencesExamples
- This has what was doubtless the desired effect: a mouthful of gin and tonic comes back out through my nose.
- Yes, I know that the tonic has sugar in it (you can, of course, use diet), but with this quantity divided among eight it isn't that much per person.
- People are going back to basics like Scotch on the rocks and Tanqueray and tonic.
- However, compared to diet cola or sugar-charged tonic or lemonade, soda water wins by a mile.
- Ten years on, I like my vodka and tonic in a well-cut piece of glass with a few roughly hewed hunks of ice and a generous squeeze of real lime, thank you very much.
- The boy brings us vodka and tonic which we drink on the balcony.
- They used to give us freebie haircuts in exchange for endless vodkas and tonics.
- In summer, drinkers take gin and tonic on the lawn or recline on the armchairs on the wooden verandah, while two great restaurants inside specialise in tasty Thai and Indian cuisine.
- I like gin based drinks: Gin and tonic is usually a safe bet in any bar.
- I now prefer the intoxicating blend of Russian caravan and lapsang souchong to the heady mix of vodka and tonic, going to bed early to sleeping in late, cook books to comic books.
- Some tonics have less sodium than club soda or many soft drinks.
- And someone told me I should have a gin and tonic.
- Very, very expensive - the last time I went, I paid £7 for a gin and tonic.
- While I wait, I nurse a vodka and tonic and attempt to intelligently assess my surroundings.
3Music
The first note in a scale which, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music.
〔乐〕主音
Example sentencesExamples
- The penultimate piece, a ‘Song without Words’, is centred on F, the work's main tonic.
- Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic.
- The music doesn't seem ‘anchored’ in a key, even though you can almost always find a tonic.
- The first of these sentences, bars 1 to 9, unequivocally secures D as the tonic.
- This, technically speaking, is tonal music, but you'd be hard pressed to identify the tonic.

adjectiveˈtɑnɪkˈtänik

1Giving a feeling of vigor or well-being; invigorating.
有活力的；令人振奋的
Example sentencesExamples
- Digestive tonic properties and early experimental findings that its long-term use promotes the heart and vascular system are other feathers in the cap for this herb.
- The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas.
- The range features a cleansing gel, tonic lotion, facial mask, day lotion and concentrate and a night gel as well as a blemish control stick and cream.
- Dang Quai is one of the most popular Chinese tonic herbs for women.
- So the mere presence of a fixed percentage of ginsenosides does not guarantee the tonic properties of a well-aged root.
- His letters mention ‘excellent spirits’ and tonic air full of wonderful odours.
- Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb.
- This excellent tonic herb is high in mineral content, with a preference for supporting the liver.
- As such it is a common ingredient in tonic formulas, particularly for elderly or debilitated people.
- Adults still dutifully head home to mother for tonic soups when a hectic all-work-and-no-play lifestyle leaves them feeling under the weather.
- Spontaneous carbonation or bubbles that sprung from natural mineral springs were believed to relieve common ailments with their tonic properties.
- But it is neither a variation on one of the old iron supplements nor is it a food, although its adherents say it has tonic properties and you do apply it to the body.
- Flavonoids are the most powerful health bestowing constituent of tonic herbs.
- Ashwagandha is unique as a tonic herb in that it is exceptionally easy to cultivate and is ready for harvest after only one year of growth.
2Music
Relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale.
〔乐〕主音的
Example sentencesExamples
- After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor.
- The superimposition of the tonic and dominant forms of the motif does not bring a resolution, only an uneasy symbiosis.
- A tonic resolution such as that at the end of this piece seems to me have quite an ironic quality.
- At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass.
- Indeed, the tonic D, which has held sway over much of the movement's main tonal and harmonic thrust, is thrown into some degree of crisis.
3Phonetics
Denoting or relating to the syllable within a tone group that has greatest prominence, because it carries the main change of pitch.
〔语音〕（音节）有主重音的
Example sentencesExamples
- Their usual intonation pattern is a rising tone on and after the tonic syllable, but, when rhetorical or emphatic, they are said with a falling tone.
4Relating to or restoring normal tone to muscles or other organs.
（与）肌肉恢复正常紧张性（有关）的；（与）器官恢复正常紧张性（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- Further, the number of both synapses and active zones per length terminal is significantly larger for the tonic axon in the leg extensor muscle.
- Unphosphorylated, attached cross-bridges in tonic mammalian smooth muscle have a very slow rate of release of ADP.
- Black haw, which has been described as having a uterine tonic effect, has been used to prepare women for labor.
- The former is designated a slow twitch muscle fiber, and the latter as slow tonic muscle fiber.
- The places that we see, these slow tonic muscle fibres, are almost the exact places where the muscles are shaping the surface of the tongue, and shaping them to do the shapes that we know are producing our speech.
1. 4.1Physiology Relating to, denoting, or producing continuous muscular contraction.
  〔生理〕（肌肉）紧张的，强直的
  Example sentencesExamples
  This tonic contraction is mostly myogenic, due to special properties of this smooth muscle, but it is modified by excitatory and inhibitory nerves.
  This tonic contraction defines the lower esophageal sphincter.
  Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
  This illustrates the essential place of the closure of the pylorus by tonic contraction in the prevention of such reflux.
  The tonic contractions, in contrast, clearly regulate the emptying of fluids from the stomach.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French tonique, from Greek tonikos ‘of or for stretching’, from tonos (see tone).

单词	tonic
释义	Definition of tonic in English: tonic noun ˈtɒnɪkˈtɑnɪk 1A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being. 补药，滋补品 Example sentencesExamples Milk thistle extract - long used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine - may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins. Practitioners of Chinese medicine use it as a tonic and restorative to promote health and longevity. Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life. Its reputation for stimulating the immune system makes it an excellent tonic for treating coughs, colds, flu and other infections, as well as for easing allergies. Herbal medicines and tonics called jamu are both home blended and mass produced. Patent medicine ads for ague tonics and liver pills filled the back pages of local agricultural publications. Jatamansi is an effective sedative and brain tonic, enhancing concentration and memory. Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash. This practice, to a large extent, is responsible for the sale of many useless tonics and drugs without any medical practitioner's prescription. ‘Digestive enzymes,’ vitamins, and tonics were frequently dispensed as ‘psychological medicine’. She took herbal tonics to regain physical strength. It fights cholesterol, and is used as a tonic and a laxative. Asian, American and Siberian ginsengs are the most renowned herbal tonics in Chinese medicine. Milk Thistle has a long history as a medicinal plant which can be used as a liver stimulant, for detoxification and as a liver tonic. I tried many tonics, tablets and exercise but all was in vain. The treatment prescribed for such phenomena included complete rest, massage, various tonics and special diets, sometimes even electroshock therapy. My new eating plan included a herbal tonic to complement my diet and encourage general well-being. In the early 1900s it became the main stimulant drug used in most of the tonics and elixirs that were developed to treat a wide variety of illnesses. Herbal tonics have the ability to nourish the nervous system and enhance resilience; they are excellent when one is tense, anxious or depressed, tired and run down. This clinic uses a special tonic that is meant to stall the growth of the cancer cells. Synonyms stimulant, restorative, refresher, cordial Medicine analeptic, roborant informal pick-me-up, bracer, livener 1.1 Something with an invigorating effect. 具恢复精力功效的东西 being needed is a tonic for someone at my age 对于我这年纪的人来说，对别人有用是件令人振奋的事情。 Example sentencesExamples He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism. This sea change in music distribution is already upon us, and could provide the tonic for the revival of those beleaguered music companies. These were the words that worked like a tonic on the renowned music composer. The effect is like a tonic, and the fact that her character - and others similarly drawn - are all still very funny is a tribute to the director's talents. For a chef at the top of his game, his humility is a tonic. He is definitely a tonic in this depressing age of faceless conductors. To a borderline workaholic like me, his attitude is a complete tonic. I can't believe it - it was the perfect tonic after my heart operation. Love it or hate it, you're sure to find it an invigorating tonic. With commentary and analysis, its members provided a tonic for much of the mainstream media's excesses. Contrition isn't much in fashion these days, but it's still a tonic for the guilty soul - and who amongst us doesn't bear regrets for at least a few decisions. I imagine all your adventures have served as a restorative tonic to the high-speed life of a newsman. Back in 1981, when this triple bill was new and the Met a more conservative place than it is today, such an original evening of opera was a positive tonic. For a person like me, who sees too much speed in all areas of modern life, his introspective takes on American music were the perfect tonic. Laughter is an invigorating tonic that heightens and brightens the mood, gently releasing us from tensions and social constraints. The brash and disrespectful attitude of the music was a tonic, while the band's lack of anonymity broke the mould. Any time I spend a few days in the company of these happy souls, it always feels like a complete tonic. The food certainly tasted wonderful and was the perfect tonic before the long flight home. The sight of the team's captain leading the side out may provide just the tonic needed after weeks of bad fortune. Galleries provide a tonic for the overstimulated senses Synonyms boost, stimulant, fillip, pleasure stimulus, spur, push informal shot in the arm, pick-me-up, reviver 2 short for tonic water Example sentencesExamples However, compared to diet cola or sugar-charged tonic or lemonade, soda water wins by a mile. In summer, drinkers take gin and tonic on the lawn or recline on the armchairs on the wooden verandah, while two great restaurants inside specialise in tasty Thai and Indian cuisine. This has what was doubtless the desired effect: a mouthful of gin and tonic comes back out through my nose. People are going back to basics like Scotch on the rocks and Tanqueray and tonic. I now prefer the intoxicating blend of Russian caravan and lapsang souchong to the heady mix of vodka and tonic, going to bed early to sleeping in late, cook books to comic books. I like gin based drinks: Gin and tonic is usually a safe bet in any bar. Yes, I know that the tonic has sugar in it (you can, of course, use diet), but with this quantity divided among eight it isn't that much per person. And someone told me I should have a gin and tonic. Very, very expensive - the last time I went, I paid £7 for a gin and tonic. Some tonics have less sodium than club soda or many soft drinks. They used to give us freebie haircuts in exchange for endless vodkas and tonics. While I wait, I nurse a vodka and tonic and attempt to intelligently assess my surroundings. Ten years on, I like my vodka and tonic in a well-cut piece of glass with a few roughly hewed hunks of ice and a generous squeeze of real lime, thank you very much. The boy brings us vodka and tonic which we drink on the balcony. 3Music The first note in a scale which, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music. 〔乐〕主音 Example sentencesExamples The first of these sentences, bars 1 to 9, unequivocally secures D as the tonic. The penultimate piece, a ‘Song without Words’, is centred on F, the work's main tonic. This, technically speaking, is tonal music, but you'd be hard pressed to identify the tonic. Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic. The music doesn't seem ‘anchored’ in a key, even though you can almost always find a tonic. adjective ˈtɒnɪkˈtɑnɪk 1Giving a feeling of vigour or well-being; invigorating. 有活力的；令人振奋的 a tonic body shampoo Example sentencesExamples As such it is a common ingredient in tonic formulas, particularly for elderly or debilitated people. The range features a cleansing gel, tonic lotion, facial mask, day lotion and concentrate and a night gel as well as a blemish control stick and cream. His letters mention ‘excellent spirits’ and tonic air full of wonderful odours. Ashwagandha is unique as a tonic herb in that it is exceptionally easy to cultivate and is ready for harvest after only one year of growth. Spontaneous carbonation or bubbles that sprung from natural mineral springs were believed to relieve common ailments with their tonic properties. Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb. This excellent tonic herb is high in mineral content, with a preference for supporting the liver. Adults still dutifully head home to mother for tonic soups when a hectic all-work-and-no-play lifestyle leaves them feeling under the weather. Digestive tonic properties and early experimental findings that its long-term use promotes the heart and vascular system are other feathers in the cap for this herb. So the mere presence of a fixed percentage of ginsenosides does not guarantee the tonic properties of a well-aged root. The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas. But it is neither a variation on one of the old iron supplements nor is it a food, although its adherents say it has tonic properties and you do apply it to the body. Dang Quai is one of the most popular Chinese tonic herbs for women. Flavonoids are the most powerful health bestowing constituent of tonic herbs. 2Music Relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale. 〔乐〕主音的 Example sentencesExamples Indeed, the tonic D, which has held sway over much of the movement's main tonal and harmonic thrust, is thrown into some degree of crisis. The superimposition of the tonic and dominant forms of the motif does not bring a resolution, only an uneasy symbiosis. After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor. At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass. A tonic resolution such as that at the end of this piece seems to me have quite an ironic quality. 3Phonetics Denoting or relating to the syllable within a tone group that has greatest prominence, because it carries the main change of pitch. 〔语音〕（音节）有主重音的 Example sentencesExamples Their usual intonation pattern is a rising tone on and after the tonic syllable, but, when rhetorical or emphatic, they are said with a falling tone. 4Relating to or restoring normal tone to muscles or other organs. （与）肌肉恢复正常紧张性（有关）的；（与）器官恢复正常紧张性（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Black haw, which has been described as having a uterine tonic effect, has been used to prepare women for labor. The former is designated a slow twitch muscle fiber, and the latter as slow tonic muscle fiber. The places that we see, these slow tonic muscle fibres, are almost the exact places where the muscles are shaping the surface of the tongue, and shaping them to do the shapes that we know are producing our speech. Further, the number of both synapses and active zones per length terminal is significantly larger for the tonic axon in the leg extensor muscle. Unphosphorylated, attached cross-bridges in tonic mammalian smooth muscle have a very slow rate of release of ADP. 4.1Physiology Relating to, denoting, or producing continuous muscular contraction. 〔生理〕（肌肉）紧张的，强直的 Example sentencesExamples This tonic contraction defines the lower esophageal sphincter. The tonic contractions, in contrast, clearly regulate the emptying of fluids from the stomach. Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking. This illustrates the essential place of the closure of the pylorus by tonic contraction in the prevention of such reflux. This tonic contraction is mostly myogenic, due to special properties of this smooth muscle, but it is modified by excitatory and inhibitory nerves. Derivatives tonically adverb The lung, however, does not become inflamed or infected, in part because alveolar and airway macrophages express a number of antiinflammatory molecules that tonically suppress pulmonary inflammation. Example sentencesExamples In Hirschsprung disease, the aganglionic colon remains spastic or tonically enhanced and unable to relax. The lower esophageal sphincter is tonically contracted at rest to seal the lumen in a rosette at the esophagogastric junction. The EDL is adapted for relatively infrequent bursts of phasic activity, whereas the soleus is tonically activated to maintain posture. The influence of hypercapnia on tonically discharging motor units is certainly of interest, and future studies are needed. Origin Mid 17th century: from French tonique, from Greek tonikos 'of or for stretching', from tonos (see tone). Rhymes anachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, diatonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, iconic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Platonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, sardonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, transonic, ultrasonic Definition of tonic in US English: tonic nounˈtɑnɪkˈtänik 1A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigor or well-being. 补药，滋补品 Example sentencesExamples Its reputation for stimulating the immune system makes it an excellent tonic for treating coughs, colds, flu and other infections, as well as for easing allergies. The treatment prescribed for such phenomena included complete rest, massage, various tonics and special diets, sometimes even electroshock therapy. Patent medicine ads for ague tonics and liver pills filled the back pages of local agricultural publications. Practitioners of Chinese medicine use it as a tonic and restorative to promote health and longevity. This clinic uses a special tonic that is meant to stall the growth of the cancer cells. It fights cholesterol, and is used as a tonic and a laxative. Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life. ‘Digestive enzymes,’ vitamins, and tonics were frequently dispensed as ‘psychological medicine’. She took herbal tonics to regain physical strength. I tried many tonics, tablets and exercise but all was in vain. Milk thistle extract - long used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine - may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins. Asian, American and Siberian ginsengs are the most renowned herbal tonics in Chinese medicine. Milk Thistle has a long history as a medicinal plant which can be used as a liver stimulant, for detoxification and as a liver tonic. Herbal tonics have the ability to nourish the nervous system and enhance resilience; they are excellent when one is tense, anxious or depressed, tired and run down. Jatamansi is an effective sedative and brain tonic, enhancing concentration and memory. My new eating plan included a herbal tonic to complement my diet and encourage general well-being. Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash. Herbal medicines and tonics called jamu are both home blended and mass produced. In the early 1900s it became the main stimulant drug used in most of the tonics and elixirs that were developed to treat a wide variety of illnesses. This practice, to a large extent, is responsible for the sale of many useless tonics and drugs without any medical practitioner's prescription. Synonyms stimulant, restorative, refresher, cordial 1.1 Something with an invigorating effect. 具恢复精力功效的东西 being needed is a tonic for someone at my age 对于我这年纪的人来说，对别人有用是件令人振奋的事情。 Example sentencesExamples I can't believe it - it was the perfect tonic after my heart operation. He is definitely a tonic in this depressing age of faceless conductors. To a borderline workaholic like me, his attitude is a complete tonic. I imagine all your adventures have served as a restorative tonic to the high-speed life of a newsman. Love it or hate it, you're sure to find it an invigorating tonic. For a person like me, who sees too much speed in all areas of modern life, his introspective takes on American music were the perfect tonic. The effect is like a tonic, and the fact that her character - and others similarly drawn - are all still very funny is a tribute to the director's talents. The sight of the team's captain leading the side out may provide just the tonic needed after weeks of bad fortune. He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism. With commentary and analysis, its members provided a tonic for much of the mainstream media's excesses. This sea change in music distribution is already upon us, and could provide the tonic for the revival of those beleaguered music companies. The brash and disrespectful attitude of the music was a tonic, while the band's lack of anonymity broke the mould. Laughter is an invigorating tonic that heightens and brightens the mood, gently releasing us from tensions and social constraints. Contrition isn't much in fashion these days, but it's still a tonic for the guilty soul - and who amongst us doesn't bear regrets for at least a few decisions. For a chef at the top of his game, his humility is a tonic. The food certainly tasted wonderful and was the perfect tonic before the long flight home. Galleries provide a tonic for the overstimulated senses These were the words that worked like a tonic on the renowned music composer. Back in 1981, when this triple bill was new and the Met a more conservative place than it is today, such an original evening of opera was a positive tonic. Any time I spend a few days in the company of these happy souls, it always feels like a complete tonic. Synonyms boost, stimulant, fillip, pleasure 2 short for tonic water Example sentencesExamples This has what was doubtless the desired effect: a mouthful of gin and tonic comes back out through my nose. Yes, I know that the tonic has sugar in it (you can, of course, use diet), but with this quantity divided among eight it isn't that much per person. People are going back to basics like Scotch on the rocks and Tanqueray and tonic. However, compared to diet cola or sugar-charged tonic or lemonade, soda water wins by a mile. Ten years on, I like my vodka and tonic in a well-cut piece of glass with a few roughly hewed hunks of ice and a generous squeeze of real lime, thank you very much. The boy brings us vodka and tonic which we drink on the balcony. They used to give us freebie haircuts in exchange for endless vodkas and tonics. In summer, drinkers take gin and tonic on the lawn or recline on the armchairs on the wooden verandah, while two great restaurants inside specialise in tasty Thai and Indian cuisine. I like gin based drinks: Gin and tonic is usually a safe bet in any bar. I now prefer the intoxicating blend of Russian caravan and lapsang souchong to the heady mix of vodka and tonic, going to bed early to sleeping in late, cook books to comic books. Some tonics have less sodium than club soda or many soft drinks. And someone told me I should have a gin and tonic. Very, very expensive - the last time I went, I paid £7 for a gin and tonic. While I wait, I nurse a vodka and tonic and attempt to intelligently assess my surroundings. 3Music The first note in a scale which, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music. 〔乐〕主音 Example sentencesExamples The penultimate piece, a ‘Song without Words’, is centred on F, the work's main tonic. Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic. The music doesn't seem ‘anchored’ in a key, even though you can almost always find a tonic. The first of these sentences, bars 1 to 9, unequivocally secures D as the tonic. This, technically speaking, is tonal music, but you'd be hard pressed to identify the tonic. adjectiveˈtɑnɪkˈtänik 1Giving a feeling of vigor or well-being; invigorating. 有活力的；令人振奋的 Example sentencesExamples Digestive tonic properties and early experimental findings that its long-term use promotes the heart and vascular system are other feathers in the cap for this herb. The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas. The range features a cleansing gel, tonic lotion, facial mask, day lotion and concentrate and a night gel as well as a blemish control stick and cream. Dang Quai is one of the most popular Chinese tonic herbs for women. So the mere presence of a fixed percentage of ginsenosides does not guarantee the tonic properties of a well-aged root. His letters mention ‘excellent spirits’ and tonic air full of wonderful odours. Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb. This excellent tonic herb is high in mineral content, with a preference for supporting the liver. As such it is a common ingredient in tonic formulas, particularly for elderly or debilitated people. Adults still dutifully head home to mother for tonic soups when a hectic all-work-and-no-play lifestyle leaves them feeling under the weather. Spontaneous carbonation or bubbles that sprung from natural mineral springs were believed to relieve common ailments with their tonic properties. But it is neither a variation on one of the old iron supplements nor is it a food, although its adherents say it has tonic properties and you do apply it to the body. Flavonoids are the most powerful health bestowing constituent of tonic herbs. Ashwagandha is unique as a tonic herb in that it is exceptionally easy to cultivate and is ready for harvest after only one year of growth. 2Music Relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale. 〔乐〕主音的 Example sentencesExamples After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor. The superimposition of the tonic and dominant forms of the motif does not bring a resolution, only an uneasy symbiosis. A tonic resolution such as that at the end of this piece seems to me have quite an ironic quality. At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass. Indeed, the tonic D, which has held sway over much of the movement's main tonal and harmonic thrust, is thrown into some degree of crisis. 3Phonetics Denoting or relating to the syllable within a tone group that has greatest prominence, because it carries the main change of pitch. 〔语音〕（音节）有主重音的 Example sentencesExamples Their usual intonation pattern is a rising tone on and after the tonic syllable, but, when rhetorical or emphatic, they are said with a falling tone. 4Relating to or restoring normal tone to muscles or other organs. （与）肌肉恢复正常紧张性（有关）的；（与）器官恢复正常紧张性（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Further, the number of both synapses and active zones per length terminal is significantly larger for the tonic axon in the leg extensor muscle. Unphosphorylated, attached cross-bridges in tonic mammalian smooth muscle have a very slow rate of release of ADP. Black haw, which has been described as having a uterine tonic effect, has been used to prepare women for labor. The former is designated a slow twitch muscle fiber, and the latter as slow tonic muscle fiber. The places that we see, these slow tonic muscle fibres, are almost the exact places where the muscles are shaping the surface of the tongue, and shaping them to do the shapes that we know are producing our speech. 4.1Physiology Relating to, denoting, or producing continuous muscular contraction. 〔生理〕（肌肉）紧张的，强直的 Example sentencesExamples This tonic contraction is mostly myogenic, due to special properties of this smooth muscle, but it is modified by excitatory and inhibitory nerves. This tonic contraction defines the lower esophageal sphincter. Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking. This illustrates the essential place of the closure of the pylorus by tonic contraction in the prevention of such reflux. The tonic contractions, in contrast, clearly regulate the emptying of fluids from the stomach. Origin Mid 17th century: from French tonique, from Greek tonikos ‘of or for stretching’, from tonos (see tone).
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