# tune
## English
### Alternative forms

* toon (eye-dialect)

### Etymology

From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /tjuːn/, /tʃuːn/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (US, Canada) IPA: /t(j)un/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Wales, Canada) IPA: /tɪu̯n/
* Rhymes: -uːn
* Homophone: chewn (yod-coalescence)
* Hyphenation: tune

### Noun

tune (countable and uncountable, plural tunes)
* A melody.
* A song, or short musical composition.
* (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
    Your engine needs a good tune.
* The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
    Your engine is now in tune.
    This piano is not in tune.
* (obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.
* (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
** c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 12, column 2:Pray you now, if it may the ſtand with the tune of your voices, that I may bee Conſull, I haue heere the Cuſtomarie Gowne.
* (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
** 1693, [John Locke], “§72”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 76:A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task].

#### Derived terms

* auto-tune
* call the tune
* can't carry a tune in a bucket
* carry a tune
* change of tune
* change one's tune
* change someone's tune
* coon tune
* cross-tune
* dance to a different tune
* dance to a new tune
* dance to someone's tune
* he who pays the piper calls the tune
* in tune
* loony tune
* out of tune
* pop tune
* showtune, show tune
* signature tune
* sig tune
* sing a different tune
* sing the same tune
* subtune
* theme tune
* there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
* to the tune of
* tuneful
* tuneless
* tunelike
* tunemeister
* tunesmith
* tune the old cow died of
* tune-up
* tunewise
* tuny
* who pays the piper calls the tune

#### Related terms

* tone

#### Descendants

* → Irish: tiúin, tuin
* → Welsh: tiwn

#### Translations

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### Interjection

tune
* (UK, slang) Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.
    You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? — Tune!

#### Translations
### Verb

tune (third-person singular simple present tunes, present participle tuning, simple past and past participle tuned)
* To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
    to tune a piano or a violin
** 1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: […] C. Davis […], 1736, →OCLC, page 290:The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
** 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 21:She bids me hope; oh Heav'ns; ſhe pities me! / And pity ſtill foreruns approching love; / As Lightning does the Thunder! Tune your Harps / Ye Angels to that ſound; and thou, my Heart, / Make room to entertain thy flowing Joy.
** 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 199, lines 190–191:Fortune foretun'd the Dying Notes of Rome: / Till I, thy Conſul ſole, conſol'd thy Doom.
* To adjust or modify (especially a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
    Coordinate term: dial in
    Tuning the engine gave me an extra twenty horsepower.
    Tune your mind, and anything becomes possible.
* To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
    Synonym: tune in
    Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.
* Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
    My ears were tuned to the sounds of the forest.
* To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
** c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 246, column 2:[H]ee hath incurred the euerlaſting diſpleaſure of the King, who had euen tun'd his bounty to ſing happineſſe to him.
* To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
** c. 1630, John Milton, “The Passion”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, stanza II, page 17:For now to ſorrow must I tune my ſong, / And ſet my Harpe to notes of ſaddeſt wo, […]
* (transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.
* (transitive) To set (lyrics) to music.
** 1977 April 9, Charley Shively, “Ginsberg Triumphant”, in Gay Community News, page 12:Ginsberg sang some poems from William Blake which he had "tuned".
* (obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC,:To ſee great Hercules whipping a Gigge, / And profound Sallomon to tune a Iigge.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 195-196:Fountains and yee, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praiſe.
* (transitive, South Africa, slang) To be impudent towards; to cheek.
    Are you tuning me?
* (fandom slang) to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)
** 2017 August 10, Keisuke Yamada, Supercell's Supercell featuring Hatsune Miku, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:[…] Those who are highly skilled in manipulating the Vocaloid technology—e.g., tuning Miku's singing voices—arrange existing […]
** 2018 December 6, Nina Sun Eidsheim, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, Duke University Press, →ISBN:LOLA's voice is used simply to render basic notes and words with no pitch or expression tuning applied.
** 2020, Janice L. Waldron, Stephanie Horsley, Kari K. Veblen, The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 522:This compiling of a track holds many parallels with “tuning” a Miku track, […]

#### Derived terms

* fine-tune
* stay tuned
* tune down
* tune in
* tune in, turn on, drop out
* tune out
* tuner
* tune up

#### Related terms

* attune

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tune?s=t

### Further reading

* “tune”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tune”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Nute, neut, neut.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tyn/

### Noun

tune f (plural tunes)
* (slang) Alternative spelling of thune

### Further reading

* “tune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* tenu

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

tune
* inflection of tunen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tunay (cf. Tagalog tunay, Indonesian tunai, Malay tunai).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʊˈne/ [tʊˈnɛ]
* Hyphenation: tu‧ne

### Adjective

tune
* real; genuine

## Middle English
### Noun

tune
* Alternative form of toun

## Ngarrindjeri
### Noun

tune
* sand

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuː.ne/

### Noun

tūne
* dative singular of tūn

## Portuguese
### Verb

tune
* inflection of tunar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtune]

### Verb

tune
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of tuna

## Spanish
### Verb

tune
* inflection of tunar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Tarantino
### Pronoun

tune (personal, second person singular)
* you

### Pronoun

tune m (possessive, feminine toje)
* your