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tune

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone,[1] from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.

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Noun

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tune (countable and uncountable, plural tunes)

  1. A melody.
    Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.
  2. A song, or short musical composition.
  3. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
    Your engine needs a good tune.
  4. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
    Your engine is now in tune.
    This piano is not in tune.
  5. (obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.
  6. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
  7. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

Translations

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Interjection

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tune

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

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Verb

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tune (third-person singular simple present tunes, present participle tuning, simple past and past participle tuned)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. To adjust the frequency of a transmitter or receiver, such as on a radio or TV transmitter or receiver, so as to send or receive an electromagnetic signal through a desired frequency band or channel.
    Synonym: tune in
    Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.
  4. Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
    My ears were tuned to the sounds of the forest.
  5. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
    2. (fandom slang) To produce a particular quality of voice by adjusting singing voice synthesis software.
      • 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, […]
  6. To adjust the frequency of a transmitter or receiver, such as on a radio or TV transmitter or receiver, so as to send or receive an electromagnetic signal through a desired frequency band or channel.
  7. To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
  8. (transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.
  9. (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".
  10. (obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.
  11. (transitive, South Africa, slang) To be impudent towards; to cheek.
    Are you tuning me?

Derived terms

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tune?s=t

Further reading

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Anagrams

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French

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Noun

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tune f (plural tunes)

  1. (slang) alternative spelling of thune

Further reading

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Anagrams

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German

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Verb

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tune

  1. inflection of tunen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Kapampangan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tʊˈne/ [tʊˈnɛ]
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ne

Adjective

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tune

  1. real; genuine; original
    Synonym: tutu

Middle English

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Noun

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tune

  1. alternative form of toun

Ngarrindjeri

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tune or sand

Noun

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tune

  1. sand

Old English

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Noun

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tūne

  1. dative singular of tūn

Portuguese

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Verb

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tune

  1. inflection of tunar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tune

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of tuna

Spanish

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Verb

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tune

  1. inflection of tunar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Tarantino

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Pronoun

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tune (personal, second person singular)

  1. you

Pronoun

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tune m (possessive, feminine toje)

  1. your
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