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outcome
English
Etymology
From out +? come.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?tk?m/
- Hyphenation: out?come
Noun
outcome (plural outcomes)
- That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
- (probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
- (education) The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience (often used in the phrase learning outcomes).
- Synonym: learning objective
- (chiefly sports) The scoreline; the result.
Translations
Anagrams
- come out, comeout
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overtone
English
Etymology
over- +? tone, calque of German Oberton.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?v?to?n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???.v?.t??n/
Noun
overtone (plural overtones)
- (physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series. [from 1867]
- (figuratively, often in the plural) An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message. [from 1890]
- Antonym: undertone
Translations
Verb
overtone (third-person singular simple present overtones, present participle overtoning, simple past and past participle overtoned)
- (transitive) To give an overtone to.
- 1860, The Art Journal (page 39)
- The flesh tints appear to have been darkened by being overworked; the draperies are overtoned in the same way […]
- 1977, Sol Dember, Steven A. Dember, Jeffrey H. Dember, Drawing & painting the world of animals (page 55)
- The background is now rendered by using meadow green with a stick pastel around the lower area under the lynx in an irregular fashion, and overtoning the areas closer to the animal with an irregular application of leaf green color.
- 2011, Jerrold Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics
- Can you imagine, finally, the opening of Janácek's Sinfonietta, with its richly overtoned, overlapping fanfares, performed not by brass but by a consort of oboes—even very loud ones?
- 1860, The Art Journal (page 39)
Further reading
- overtone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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