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Definition: Undertone |
UndertoneNoun1. A quiet or hushed tone of voice: "spoke in undertones". 2. Subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning. 3. A pale or subdued color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "undertone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: UndertoneSynonyms: tinge (n), undercurrent (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Undertone consisted of the following members - Grover (Vocals), Mark (Guitar), Matt (Bass) and Craig (Drums).
After splitting members of the band went on to play in many other acts including Gacy's Place, Keeth, Heads Kicked Off, Distortion Foreskin and George W. Bush.
Two main recordings were made of the band, one which was never released and a second, recorded at the University of South Australia was made available on several compliation discs. They should not be confused with The Undertones.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Undertone."
Crosswords: Undertone |
| English words defined with "undertone": in a low voice ♦ sotto voce ♦ Undersong. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | By times he would talk to himself, and in an undertone mutter dismal monologues. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and factories, and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Undertone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undertone" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "undertone": in an undertone ♦ talk in an undertone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
undertone | 11 |
undertone network | 6 |
sft undertone | 3 |
links sft undertone | 2 |
skin undertone | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "undertone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zë i ulët, nuancë (cast, color, colour, nuance, shade, spice, tincture, tinge, tint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسحة باطنة, لون خافت, صوت خفيض (low voice, wooing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оттенък (hue, overtone, savor, savour, spice, strain, tincture, tinge, touch), полутон (halftone, semitone, undertint), полуглас (low voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tlumený hlas, spodní tón (undercurrent), podtext, přídech (aspiration, overtones), náznak (evidence, hint, implication, inkling, insinuation, intimation, overtones, savor, smack, suggestion, suspicion, trace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موجوددرزمینه , ته صدا, ته رنگ (Tincture, Tint), رنگ کمرنگ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puoliääneen (in an undertone, under one's breath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voix basse, nuance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unterton (overtone), leiser Ton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χαμηλόσ τόνοσ, χαμηλή φωνή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קול מוך, 'ון קל (shading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | suttogás (rustle, susurrus, whisper, whispering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tono sommesso, senso nascosto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 低調 (dullness, inactive, low tone, slack, slow, sluggish, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ていちょう (captain, courteous, dullness, hospitable, inactive, low tide, low tone, polite, slack, slow, sluggish, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coraa injil (chest-voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ertoneunday voz baixa, tom suave, sentido sugerido, meio tom (semitone), meia-voz, indicação (clue, convocation, denotation, denotement, designation, directions, four, guide mark, indication, intimation, label, Mark, marking, notice, pointing, sign, statement), cor fraca. (various references) оттенок (color, colour, contrast, nuance, savor, savour, shade, shade of, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, touch), полутон (half tone, half-light, halftone, semitone, undertint). (various references) tih ton, slaba boja (undertint), prigušen glas. (various references) voz baja. (various references) underton (sub-harmonic), svag antydan. (various references) gizli duygu, genel eğilim, fısıltı (breath, mutter, susurration, whisper, whispering), donuk renk (scumble), alçak ses. (various references) відтінок (hue, nuance, savor, savour, tinct, tincture), півтон (half-light, semitone), підтекст. (various references) m u dịu, giong nói nhỏ m u nhạt, giọng thấp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "undertone": undertones. (additional references) | |
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"Undertone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Unberto, uncertente, undermone, undernote, understone, undertoe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "undertone" (pronounced u"ndertō'n) |
| 4 | -er t ō' n | overtone. |
| 3 | -t ō' n | acetone, baritone, bloodstone, Bluestone, brownstone, capstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, Firestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, Gladstone, Goldstone, gravestone, greenstone, grindstone, hailstone, halftone, headstone, keystone, limestone, lodestone, milestone, millstone, monotone, moonstone, rhinestone, sandstone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, whetstone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: deuteron, unrented. | |
-2 letters: denture, donnert, endnote, enteron, erodent, neurone, neutron, retuned, tenoned, tenoner, tenured, unnoted. | |
-3 letters: denote, detour, donnee, dunner, endure, enduro, enured, neoned, neuron, neuter, redone, redout, rennet, rented, retune, rodent, rotund, routed, tender, tendon, tenner, tenour, tenure, teredo, tonner, toured, tunned, tureen, turned, turnon, undoer, undone, unrent, untorn, untrod. | |
-4 letters: deter, donee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: nontenured, tenpounder, undertones. | |
+2 letters: encountered, tenpounders, truncheoned, unconverted. | |
+3 letters: countermined, countertrend, nonregulated, rencountered, rotundnesses, thunderstone, undercounted, unornamented. | |
+4 letters: counterbidden, counterdemand, countermanded, countersigned, countertrends, equiponderant, overindulgent, reencountered, thunderstones, unconsecrated. | |
+5 letters: counterchanged, counterdemands, counterpointed, counterpunched, counterstained, nondestructive, pseudopregnant, superconfident, tremendousness, underreporting, untowardnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 74 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. - --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0074 006F 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558070718486818071 |
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