English-Thai Dictionary

overtone

N ความหมาย เสริม  ความหมาย รอง  connotation hint kwam-mai-soem

 

overtone

N เสียง แทรก  เสียง สอดแทรก  inference siang-sank

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OVERTONE

O "ver *tone `, n. Etym: [A translation of G. oberton. See Over, Tone. ](Mus. )

 

Defn: One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc. ; an aliquot or "partial " tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

overtone

o ver tone |ˈōvərˌtōn ˈoʊvərˌtoʊn | ▶noun 1 a musical tone that is a part of the harmonic series above a fundamental note and may be heard with it. • Physics a component of any oscillation whose frequency is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency. 2 (often overtones ) a subtle or subsidiary quality, implication, or connotation: the decision may have political overtones. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from over- + tone, suggested by German Oberton .

 

Oxford Dictionary

overtone

over |tone |ˈəʊvətəʊn | ▶noun 1 a musical tone which is a part of the harmonic series above a fundamental note, and may be heard with it. • Physics a component of any oscillation whose frequency is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency. 2 (often overtones ) a subtle or subsidiary quality, implication, or connotation: the decision may have political overtones. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from over- + tone, suggested by German Oberton .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

overtone

overtone noun there were overtones of flirtatious mischief in her letter: connotation, hidden meaning, implication, association, undercurrent, undertone, echo, vibrations, hint, suggestion, insinuation, intimation, suspicion, feeling, nuance.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

overtone

overtone noun connotation, hidden meaning, secondary meaning, implication, association, undercurrent, undertone, echo, vibrations, hint, suggestion, insinuation, intimation, flavour, colouring, smack, suspicion, feeling, aura, atmosphere, nuance, trace, murmur, touch, vein; rare subcurrent.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

overtone

ó ver t ò ne 名詞 C 1 〖通例 ～s 〗(言葉などの )含み, 含蓄, ニュアンス ▸ a reply full of overtones 含みのある返答 .2 〘楽 〙上音, 倍音 .