() 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.
Prelude
Definition:
(v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture.
(v. i.) To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude.
(v. t.) To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.
(v. t.) To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory.
Example Sentences:
(1) If overloaded, these areas are subject to "cervical cratering," a common prelude to implant failure.
(2) The separate anxiety measures utilized were total number of words, preludes to stories, outcomes to stories, combined preludes and outcomes, perceptual repression, and overall psychopathology.
(3) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
(4) We have studied the age-dependence of the effects of kainate (KA) on the chick retina as a prelude to the accompanying paper on the effects of target-removal on the isthmo-optic nucleus.
(5) As a prelude to these goals, sodium-23 imaging experiments operating at 29.8 MHz (2.7 teslas) were performed on the bovine eye and lens.
(6) • Russia called on Syria to turn control of its chemical weapons arsenal over to international authorities as prelude to the arsenal's destruction.
(7) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
(8) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
(9) We propose that stereotaxic neurosurgery can provide safe and accurate diagnosis, which is a prelude to planning comprehensive management.
(10) As a prelude to neurobehavioral toxicologic studies in neonatal minipigs, normal maturational changes in the visual evoked response (VER) were determined in 6 Hormel-bred minipigs.
(11) As a prelude to future studies focusing on the mechanism of drug-induced embryotoxicity, we have used established biochemical and immunologic methods to identify and quantify topoisomerase II in rat embryos.
(12) He'll certainly be hoping that Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-1997 does better than his second novel, Maya.
(13) For each Prelude, the tonic (first note) and the mode (major or minor) of the scale produced were compared to the tonic and mode designated by Bach.
(14) This will be a very hot week that should be seen as a prelude to a very hot winter,” she said.
(15) Implied in this hypothesis is the idea that crest-derived cells, as a prelude to their participation in ganglion formation, acquire a neurally related laminin receptor, which they do not express at pre-enteric stages of migration.
(16) The extracellular coat, or zona pellucida, of mammalian eggs contains species-specific receptors to which sperm bind as a prelude to fertilization.
(17) It is speculated that other fish may have evolved some degree of strength to overcome inertia and drag during aquatic locomotion, and this evolution may have been a prelude to terrestrial locomotion.
(18) A huge Russian convoy allegedly carrying humanitarian aid was on its way to war-torn eastern Ukraine on Tuesday night, in a operation which the west fears may be a prelude to a Russian invasion but which Moscow insists is designed to relieve the suffering of besieged residents trapped by conflict.
(19) As a prelude to an awareness course in mental handicap an exploration was made of the relevant cultural knowledge of pupils in the second year of a comprehensive school.
(20) In the prelude to the Good Friday agreement, the negotiators made ample use of what David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist leader, liked to call “constructive ambiguity”.