Overtone vs Intimation - What's the difference?
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(physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic
An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message. See undertone.
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The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
Announcement; declaration.
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A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
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Overtone is a related term of intimation.
As nouns the difference between overtone and intimation
is that overtone is (physics|music) a tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic while intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.overtone
English
(wikipedia overtone)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
intimation
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Noun
(en noun)- They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
- Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
- At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.