different between overdone vs overtone

English

Etymology

From Middle English overdon, from Old English oferd?n, equivalent to over- +? done.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ov???d?n/

Adjective

overdone (comparative more overdone, superlative most overdone)

1. Cooked too much.
2. Exaggerated.
3. Repeated too often; hackneyed.

Verb

overdone

1. past participle of overdo

Further reading

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “overdone”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• overdone at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• done over

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)

1. (physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series. [from 1867]
2. (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)

1. (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?

Further reading

• overtone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References