Synonym: bid, introduction, offer, prelude, proposal. Similar words: aperture, perturb, nurture, departure, perturbation, overt, covert, departure time. Meaning: ['əʊvərtjr /'əʊvətjʊə] 
n. 1. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio 2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows 3. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others.
n. 1. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio 2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows 3. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others. 
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31. Endorse the overture by director XXX from provincial TB Institute.
32. The three books in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle are named after a Rossini overture, a piano piece by Schumann and a character in Mozart's Magic Flute respectively.
33. So let's listen to a pattern that Rossini is using here in this opera overture.
34. Three - fours of the people agree with the overture presently.
35. In a second overture to the Russians today, the Nato military alliance proposed a joint missile defence system to counter the danger of rocket attacks from countries like Iran.
36. The playlist for their Asian tour contains but one classical cover : Tchaikovshy's 1812 Overture.
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38. Only a whirling Dervish could dance a Mozart symphony: indeed, I have reduced two young and practised dancers to exhaustion by making them dance a Mozart overture.
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40. Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
41. A great deal of prolocutor consumingly attacked this overture at the meeting.
42. Meanwhile the conductor lifted his violin bow and the orchestra attacked the overture.
43. Kurdish and Turkish nationalists alike promptly declared the government's so - called Kurdish overture dead.
44. After the overture, the orchestra stopped to tune up again.
45. When the Marine Corps Band performs the 1812 Overture, the musicians “use very large bass drums to simulate cannon fire, to very good effect,” said Ressler.
46. Ernest was clattering next door in the kitchen, whistling a few bars of music that Simon recognized as part of a Rossini overture.
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