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提議,提案,初步交涉提議

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Overture \O"ver*ture\, [OF. overture, F. ouverture, fr. OF.
   ovrir, F. ouvrir. See {Overt}.]
   1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
      [Obs.] --Spenser. ``The cave's inmost overture.''
      --Chapman.

   2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.]

            It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to
            us.                                   --Shak.

   3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for
      consideration, acceptance, or rejection. ``The great
      overture of the gospel.'' --Barrow.

   4. (Mus.) 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}.

Overture \O"ver*ture\, v. t.
   To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on
   some subject.

資料來源 : WordNet®

overture
     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; "training is a necessary preliminary to
        employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner" [syn: {preliminary},
         {prelude}]
     3: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of
        others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: {advance}, {approach},
         {feeler}]