tune
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
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.
Inflected forms:
form: tunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toon
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: tunes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tuning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tuned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tuned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: toon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A melody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.
gloss: A song, or short musical composition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of tuning or maintenance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Your engine needs a good tune.
gloss: The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your engine is now in tune.
This piano is not in tune.
gloss: Temper; frame of mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A sound; a note; a tone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Order; harmony; concord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task].
gloss: Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.
pos: intj
tags: UK
slang
examples: You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? — Tune!
gloss: To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
pos: verb
examples: to tune a piano or a violin
The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
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.
Fortune foretun'd the Dying Notes of Rome: / Till I, thy Conſul ſole, conſol'd thy Doom.
gloss: To adjust or modify (especially a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
pos: verb
examples: Tuning the engine gave me an extra twenty horsepower.
Tune your mind, and anything becomes possible.
gloss: To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
pos: verb
examples: Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.
gloss: Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
pos: verb
examples: My ears were tuned to the sounds of the forest.
gloss: To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
pos: verb
examples: [H]ee hath incurred the euerlaſting diſpleaſure of the King, who had euen tun'd his bounty to ſing happineſſe to him.
gloss: To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
pos: verb
examples: For now to ſorrow must I tune my ſong, / And ſet my Harpe to notes of ſaddeſt wo, […]
gloss: To give a certain tone or character to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To set (lyrics) to music.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ginsberg sang some poems from William Blake which he had "tuned".
gloss: To sing with melody or harmony.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: To ſee great Hercules whipping a Gigge, / And profound Sallomon to tune a Iigge.
Fountains and yee, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praiſe.
gloss: To be impudent towards; to cheek.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
slang
transitive
examples: Are you tuning me?
gloss: 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.)
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: […] Those who are highly skilled in manipulating the Vocaloid technology—e.g., tuning Miku's singing voices—arrange existing[…]
LOLA's voice is used simply to render basic notes and words with no pitch or expression tuning applied.
This compiling of a track holds many parallels with “tuning” a Miku track, […]
Related words: tone
attune
Derived words: 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
chiptune
coon tune
crooked tune
cross-tune
dance to a different tune
dance to a new tune
dance to someone's tune
detune
distune
downtune
he who pays the piper calls the tune
in tune
loony tune
mistune
out of tune
overtune
pop tune
pretune
retune
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
tunability
tunable
tuneable
tuneage
tunebook
tuneful
tuneless
tunelet
tunelike
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tunesmith
tunesmithery
tunesmithing
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tunester
tune the old cow died of
tune-up
tunewise
tuny
untune
who pays the piper calls the tune
fine-tune
stay tuned
tune down
tune in
tune in, turn on, drop out
tune out
tuner
tune up
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