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Definition of 'tune'Noun
( en-noun)
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 .
(UK|slang) A very good song.
- You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune !
(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
* Shakespeare
- the tune of your voices
(obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
* John Locke
- A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune , as when he is dragged unwillingly to [his task].
Derived terms
* change one's tune
* in tune
* out of tune
( rel-mid)
* to the tune of
* carry a tune
( rel-bottom)
Related terms
* tone
Verb
( tun)
To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
- to tune a piano or a violin
* Dryden
- Tune your harps.
To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions optimally.
To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
- (Shakespeare)
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
* Milton
- For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
To sing with melody or harmony.
* Milton
- Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
(South Africa|slang|transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
- Are you tuning me?
Derived terms
* fine-tune
* stay tuned
* tune in
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( rel-mid)
* tuner
* tune out
* tune up
( rel-bottom)
Related terms
* attune
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