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overtone

/oh-ver-tohn/US // ˈoʊ vərˌtoʊn //UK // (ˈəʊvəˌtəʊn) //

泛音,意味着,泛指,意指

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Music. an acoustical frequency that is higher in frequency than the fundamental.
    • : an additional, usually subsidiary and implicit meaning or quality: an aesthetic theory with definite political overtones.

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Examples

  • Today, her phrase “birth control” suggests overtones of control by the state or others, and is no longer commonly used.

  • There were racial overtones to that kind of perception of the ingredient.

  • Space started as a duopoly as the United States and the Soviet Union vied for supremacy in a geopolitical contest with loud military overtones.

  • Gender boundaries were rigidly policed, at times with moral overtones, and the social pressures laid upon men and women were very real.

  • I know this is the word used in English but “Holocaust” has a sacrificial overtone that is unbearable to me.

  • Since this is a law of vibration, it is unscientific to speak of giving an overtone, for all tones contain overtones.

  • Impassioned it continued, and yet with the overtone of a great pity and tenderness now vibrating through it.

  • But now quiet, save for an undescribable, whispering overtone that seemed to permeate the air.

  • In any overtone, the number of the parts or vibrating segments of the string is one more than the number of the overtone.

  • And the tinkle of myriad glass wind bells held a maddening overtone.