What's the difference between overtire and overture?
Overtire
Definition:
(v. t.) To tire to excess; to exhaust.
(v. t.) To become too tired.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm overtired, I've got a horrible week in work ahead, and I'm scared Gerrard is going to go all 2008ish, try too hard to be superman, and shoot from anywhere.
(2) He then apologises to Prior, who isn't angry, just disappointed, and wonders if he might be overtired or showing off to his friends.
(3) Cradled in the policeman’s arms, his pose is that of any overtired toddler being taken up to bed.
(4) I felt odd: overtired, overwrought, unpleasantly like my brain had been removed and my skull stuffed with something like microwaved aluminium foil, dinted, charred and shorting with sparks.
(5) It was done in normal, fresh condition on one muscle, and on the other after having it over-stimulated with ac of 110 V supposing that a part of K is immobilly bound in fresh muscles, but in the overtired muscles a part of K is released and becomes mobile.
Overture
Definition:
() An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
() Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
() A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.
() A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
(v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pandas have long been an important symbol of Chinese diplomatic overtures to both allies and former foes.
(2) West Side Story had become the acceptable face of teenage gang warfare, so Kubrick stylised and choreographed the violence, setting it to music that ranges from Rossini overtures to 'Singin' in the Rain'.
(3) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(4) They point out that the clinical overture and its swift evolution with heart involvement make the diagnosis and the treatment difficult and, at the same time, urgent.
(5) On the BBC's Andrew Marr Show shortly before the party conference season, he made public overtures to Cable, a fellow guest on the programme.
(6) However, in his UN speech Obama made clear that the US saw the Iranian nuclear programme as a much more immediate and serious threat to its core interests, and he responded to the overtures of the newly-elected leadership in Tehran by putting Kerry in charge of the coming critical weeks of intense negotiations.
(7) Disclosures of her overtures to extremists abroad surfaced as the investigation into the 2 December shooting appeared to take a new turn with divers searching a small lake near the scene of the massacre.
(8) Ukip's existing general election candidate in Clacton-on-Sea said he had no intention of standing aside for the Conservative defector Douglas Carswell – and even said that the Tories had been making overtures to him.
(9) In search, Ballmer in 2003 personally vetoed the idea of buying Overture, which owned key technologies relating to search ads – arguing Microsoft could build its own as it began competing head-on with Google that year.
(10) Instead, Obama made an overture to the developing countries, acknowledging the US and other industrialised states had failed for too long to acknowledge their responsibility.
(11) Desmond's friends say that the mogul is keen to spend heavily to try and get the guests he wants – but the public overtures are often highly optimistic.
(12) In a 47-minute speech before a secret ballot – which he won with 422 votes in the 751-seat chamber, 46 more than the absolute majority needed – Juncker made overtures to Christian and social democrats, the two biggest blocs in the Strasbourg chamber, as well as to liberals and greens.
(13) Witnesses to Barati’s death made similar overtures to Guardian Australia in May last year.
(14) Seoul welcomed the overture as “meaningful”, coming after the North’s state media had previously used sexist and personal language in attacks on South Korea’s first female president, Park Geun-Hye.
(15) There has to be a major overture, maybe an international conference of some sort, to emphasise the government agenda.
(16) The shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said on Tuesday current superannuation tax concessions were “not equitable and not sustainable”, and he made an overture to the new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , saying he could have the capacity to rise above the unsophisticated scare campaigns of the past.
(17) Recently, however, the Kremlin has rejected his overtures.
(18) Farrakhan has made overtures before, particularly to Jews, only to be criticised for cheap PR stunts.
(19) I would like to see some new faces.” On Sunday, Corbyn said he was prepared to make overtures to MPs who had been critical of his leadership, hinting that he could broaden his shadow cabinet.
(20) Then, they retreated to hold private talks on a range of issues set to include the Arab-Israeli conflict, diplomatic overtures toward Iran and oil prices.