different between overtone vs connotation

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connot?ti?, from connot? (“I mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connote +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n??te???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: con?no?ta?tion

Noun

connotation (plural connotations)

1. (semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

   The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.

2. (logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.

   The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

Synonyms

• intension

Antonyms

• denotation

Related terms

• connotate
• connotative
• connote

Translations

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “connotation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connot?ti?, from connot? (“I mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connoter +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.n?.ta.sj??/

Noun

connotation f (plural connotations)

1. connotation