1) overtone. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...implicit meaning or quality; an implication or a hint. Often used in the plural: an overtone of anger barely masked; praise with overtones of envy. 2. See harmonic...
2) 15268. Crane, Hart. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:15268 QUOTATION:subways, rivered under streetsand rivers . in the carthe overtone of motionunderground, the monotoneof motion is the soundof other faces,...
3) accumulative, cumulative. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.
1993
...These two are partly synonymous, but generally, accumulative has an overtone of acquisitiveness, as in He has accumulative drives you might not suspect; he craves...
4) 413. Melody. Concord. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...rime or rhyme (poetry) [See Poetry]. [MUSICAL TERMS] pitch, timbre, intonation, tone, overtone. orchestration, harmonization, modulation, phrasing, temperament, syncope,...
5) 11076. Cather, Willa. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional...
6) SYNONYM, SYNONYMIES. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...largeness, and enormity are synonyms, but hugeness may have a slightly frightening overtone, and enormity a suggestion of the monstrous and the grotesque that, for...
7) overblow. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...(-blon), oˇverˇblowˇing, oˇverˇblows To blow (a wind instrument) so as to produce an overtone instead of a fundamental tone....
8) 12590. Clark, Baron of Saltwood, Kenneth MacKenzie. The Columbia World of
Quotations. 1996
...condition. The word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled...
9) tuning systems. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The need for a tuning system hinges on the conflict of pitch relationships in the natural overtone series and the exigencies of musical compositional systems, specifically...
10) octave. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and in modern Western notation the two have the same letter name. The octave is the first overtone (see harmonic). The range of the male voice is roughly an octave...
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