different between overture vs aperture

English

Etymology

From Middle English overture, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French overture, from Old French overture. Doublet of aperture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?tj??/, /???v?t?(?)?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?v??t???/

Noun

overture (plural overtures)

1. (obsolete) An opening; a recess or chamber. [15th-19th c.]
   • c. 1612', George Chapman, A Hymne to Hermes

     the cave's inmost overture

2. (obsolete) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
3. (often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 20:

     My mother had no choice; one did not turn down such an overture from the regent.

4. (Scotland) A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. [from 16th c.]
5. (music) A musical introduction to a piece of music. [from 17th c.]

Antonyms

• (opening of a piece of music): coda

Related terms

• overt

Translations

Verb

overture (third-person singular simple present overtures, present participle overturing, simple past and past participle overtured)

1. (intransitive) To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.
   • 2012, K.H. Rubin, H.S. Ross, Peer Relationships and Social Skills in Childhood (page 44)

     For a partner setting a table in a game of “house,” an overturing child might assume the role of the father returning home from work at dinnertime rather than overturing by throwing a ball toward the child and yelling “catch.”

Anagrams

• trouvère

Old French

Etymology

overt +? -ure, from ovrir (“to open”), or from Vulgar Latin *opert?ra, from Latin apert?ra.

Noun

overture f (oblique plural overtures, nominative singular overture, nominative plural overtures)

1. an opening

   Par l'overture s'en saut hors. (Tristan, Béroul)

   He jumped out through the opening.

Descendants

• English: overture
• French: ouverture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apert?ra (“opening”), from apertus, past participle of aper?re (“to open, uncover”), opposed to oper?re (“to close, cover”). See aperient. Doublet of overture.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æp.?.t??(?)/, /?æp.?.tj??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æp.?.t??/
• Hyphenation: ap?er?ture

Noun

aperture (plural apertures)

1. A small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.
   • 1860, Samuel Hannaford, Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria Chapter 7

     In the centre of the fleshy membrane is an aperture leading into a deep cavity, at the bottom of which is placed a prominent piston that may be retracted by muscular fibres provided for the purpose.
2. (optics) Something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system.
3. (astronomy, photography) The diameter of the aperture (in the sense above) which restricts the width of the light path through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens.

4. (spaceflight, communication) The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication satellites, especially in the geostationary belt. For a comsat, this is typically a large reflective dish antenna; sometimes called an array.
5. (mathematics, rare, of a right circular cone) The maximum angle between the two generatrices.

   If the generatrix makes an angle ? to the axis, then the aperture is 2?.

Usage notes

The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture, which signifies the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed; as, a microscope of 100° aperture.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• aperture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aperture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apert?ra (“opening”). Doublet of ouverture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p??.ty?/

Noun

aperture f (uncountable)

1. (phonetics, phonology) opening, openness, aperture

Related terms

• apéritif
• ouvrir

Further reading

• “aperture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

aperture f

1. plural of apertura

Anagrams

• reputare
• reputerà

Latin

Participle

apert?re

1. vocative masculine singular of apert?rus

Spanish

Verb

aperture

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aperturar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of aperturar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of aperturar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aperturar.