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OVERTON
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called. Most are named from Old English uferra ‘upper’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; others have Old English Åfer ‘riverbank’ or ofer ‘slope’ as the first element.
Girl/Female
Irish
Irish word saoirse “freedom, liberty.†It has only been used since the 1920s and has strong patriotic overtones. It has become a very popular baby girl name in Ireland in recent years.
Boy/Male
British, English, Jamaican
Town High on a Hill; Upper Town
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : nickname from Middle English chubbe ‘chub’, a common freshwater fish, Leuciscus cephalus. The fish is notable for its short, fat shape and sluggish habits. The word is well attested in Middle English as a description of an indolent, stupid, or physically awkward person, and this is probably the origin of modern English chubby, although the term has lost any pejorative overtones.
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Boy/Male
Tamil
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Boy/Male
Irish
Old; ancient; archaic.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Modern
Piece of Heart
Male
Welsh
Welsh surname transferred to forename use, derived from ap Rhys, PRYCE means "son of Rhys."
Surname or Lastname
French
French : derivative of Mange.English and Irish : variant of Mangan, perhaps, in the case of the Irish name, of Manning.
Girl/Female
Greek American Latin Shakespearean
Pure.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Servant of the Most Gracious (Allah)
Boy/Male
Hindu
The Moon
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Boreham, a habitational name from places so called in Essex, Hertfordshire, and Sussex.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit, Tamil
One with Good Conduct; Good Leader
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n.
The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
n.
An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
n.
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.
n.
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
n.
A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
v. i.
To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.
a.
Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.