Crossword-Solution: OVERTONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overtone | n. | 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. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “OVERTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| UPPER partial vibration | 1 answer |
| Subsidiary meaning | 1 answer |
| Subsidiary intent | 1 answer |
| Secondary quality | 1 answer |
| Secondary meaning | 1 answer |
| Public figure giving hint | 1 answer |
| Part of a harmonic series | 1 answer |
| Insinuation: obvious one (8) | 1 answer |
| Hint; insinuation | 1 answer |
| Extra meaning | 1 answer |
| A quality in music. | 1 answer |
| Faint sound. | 3 answers |
| Shading | 5 answers |
| harmonic | 6 answers |
| Innuendo | 9 answers |
| sonority | 15 answers |
| connotation | 16 answers |
| Insinuation | 16 answers |
| Implication | 28 answers |
| Musical note | 29 answers |
| intimation | 39 answers |
| Suggestion | 41 answers |
| undertone | 57 answers |
| Nuance | 57 answers |
| undercurrent | 65 answers |
| Shade | 78 answers |
| Hint | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTONE (5)
The small, still voice within her had said, "Don't go! Don't go!" But the harsh, high-pitched, reckless overtone said, "Go on! Have a good time.
Without encroaching upon the biographical task, one may borrow from biography this insistent echo: the anecdotes of Lincoln sound over and over the note of easy-going good nature; but there is to be found in many of the Lincoln anecdotes an overtone of melancholy which lingers after one's impression of his good nature.
There were shouts of derision and mockery--a great overtone of acrid derision--the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared.
Nearly opposite to me was one of the sweetest faces I have ever seen, the complexion quite pearly white, the hair of pale gold, in shining little rings over the brow, which was wonderfully pure, though with an almost childish overtone.
The music itself, blurred by a loud trombone, became hot and shadowy, a languorous overtone to the scraping of many shoes and slippers.
Quotes with OVERTONE (1)
Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1955–2021).