Entertainment / Music / Tonic: The first note of a scale (the tonic or keynote do), which serves as the home base around which the other pitches revolve and to which they ultimately gravitate.
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Tonic Noun Synonyms: stimulant, restorative, invigorant, boost, refresher, Obsolete or literary ptisan or tisane, roborant, analeptic, bracer, pick-me-up, pick-up, shot in the arm, picker-upper
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Science / Biology / Plate Tectonics: The movement of the plates that make up the surface of the Earth. The revolutionary paradigm in geology that the earths crust is composed of rigid segments (plates) in constant (although considered sl MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Platonic: In common usage, people often use the word 'platonic' to mean 'intellectual rather than physical.' Thus, a Platonic love-affair is one in which the couple is attracted to each other for mental or psyc MORE
Science / Biology / Planktonic Organisms: Floaters; one of the two main types of organisms in the pelagic zone of the marine biome. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Pentatonic Scale: Five-note pattern used in some African, Far Eastern and Native American musics: can also be found in Western music as an example of exoticism. MORE
Science / Biology / Nektonic Organisms: Swimmers; one of the two main types of organisms in the pelagic zone of the marine biome. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Platonic Form: The ideas, images, or patterns of which physical reality is but an imperfect or transitory symbol or expression. See discussion under Platonic. MORE