overtone

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.
2. isim An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion, or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message.

   “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.”

3. isim An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion, or similar) perceived subtly alongside, but not overwhelming, the explicit message.
4. fiil To give an overtone to.

   “The flesh tints appear to have been darkened by being overworked; the draperies are overtoned in the same way […]”