Tenor (disambiguation)

Tenor (from Latin tenor, holder, or tenere, hold) means generally:
* the true purport and effect of a deed or instrument;
* the character or usual pattern of something;
* the drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse;
* the concept, object, or person meant in a metaphor.

In specialised fields:
* Tenor (music) refers to a musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. Also a person, instrument, or group that performs in that range...
* ...or the tenor clef they play in. (Note: link redirects to 'Clef'; the contents box refers to the 'tenor clef', half-way down that page. You can, alternatively, visit this link half way down the page)
* Tenor (linguistics) refers to the relationship between participants in a discourse.
* Tenor is also the name of a search technology planned for KDE 4.