overtone
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Is overtone a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.
2. (figuratively, often in the plural) An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion, or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message.Examples: "A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery—a great overtone of acrid derision—the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared."; "The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three [Marine Le Pen] had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's [Jean-Marie Le Pen's] convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane"."Antonyms: undertonefigurativelyin-pluraloften
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To give an overtone to.Examples: "The flesh tints appear to have been darkened by being overworked; the draperies are overtoned in the same way […]"; "The background is now rendered by using meadow green with a stick pastel around the lower area under the lynx in an irregular fashion, and overtoning the areas closer to the animal with an irregular application of leaf green color."; "Can you imagine, finally, the opening of Janácek's Sinfonietta, with its richly overtoned, overlapping fanfares, performed not by brass but by a consort of oboes—even very loud ones?"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary