overtone 的定义
- 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.
overtone 近义词
implication, hint
更多overtone例句
- 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.