affective meaning, climate, feel, harmonic tone, insinuation, monotone, point, relation, span of meaning, symbolic meaning, undercurrent
Definitionn. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality
Last update: October 21, 2015
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There was an overtone of sadness in his speech. [Please select]
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If it is touched in the middle with a feather, the edge of a card, or the finger nail, and bowed a quarter of the way along the octave, the first overtone comes out. [Please select]
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There again: the overtone following through the air, third. [Please select]
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The string, considered as halved by one node, gives the first overtone, or octave of the fundamental. [Please select]
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And with each succeeding overtone another node and ventral segment are added. [Please select]
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Vincent kept silence, pondering every tone and overtone of the remark. [Please select]
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