undertone

undertone englannista suomeksi

1. kuiskaus

2. sävy

3. pohjasävy

0. Substantiivi

0. Verbi

undertone englanniksi

1. An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.

2. (RQ:Beckett Watt)

3. (RQ:Heller Catch-22)

4. An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, speech or similar (contrast with (m)); an undercurrent.

(ant)

5. A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.

6. A low state of the physical faculties.

7. {{quote-journal|en|year=1905|journal=Medical Review|volume=51-52|page=171

8. To accompany as an undertone.

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1941|author=Emily Carr|title=Klee Wyck|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131.txt|chapter=1

10. {{quote-journal|en|year=1951|author=Arthur Leo Zagat|title=7|journal=Fantastic Novels Magazine|month=January|titleurl=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1401041h.html

11. To say or speak in an undertone.

12. {{quote-text|en|year=1861|author=George Meredith|title=Evan Harrington|section=Chapter 30, Part 1|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4434/4434-h/4434-h.htm

13. {{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=R. M. Ballantyne|title=The Big Otter|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21718/21718-h/21718-h.htm|chapter=13

14. {{quote-book|en|year=1984|author=Greg Bear|title=(novel)|Corona|chapterurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=f1W2cJukg7MC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=11|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year_published=2000

15. {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Sullivan (author)|Thomas Sullivan|title=The Martyring|publisher=Crossroad Press|year_published=2015|chapter=35|pageurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=RZXPBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

16. To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.

17. 1866, ''{unattributed}'', https://books.google.com/books?id=zYI4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA427&dq=%22to+undertone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEsQ6AEwCTgoahUKEwiX0_e6jr_HAhWIO4gKHRgoC1ov=onepage&q=%22to%20undertone%22&f=false Littell's Living Age - Volume 88 - Page 427

Men rarely make this mistake, their habitual blunder being to undertone everything, to make too light of Julia's new frock, and Johnnie's symptoms of measles, and the way they waste things down stairs.

18. 2010, Maddy Myers, “Arisia 2010: the Sexiest of Sci-Fi Cons,” Phoenix (newspaper)|thephoenix.com, 26 January, 2010,http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/laserorgy/archive/2010/01/26/arisia-2010-the-sexiest-of-sci-fi-cons.aspx

It’s hard enough to separate the geeks from the creeps at your average Anime con (it’s more of a Venn Diagram than an either/or, really). The task becomes even more difficult at Arisia, where the sexual undertones are … not particularly undertoned.