tune

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See also: Tune, tuné, and -tune

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -uːn
  • Homophone: chewn (among those with yod-coalescence in stressed syllables)

Noun

tune (countable and uncountable, plural tunes)

  1. A melody.
  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. (UK, slang) A very good popular song.
    You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune!
  6. Temper; frame of mind.
  7. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the tune of your voices
  8. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task].

Derived terms

Terms derived from tune (noun)

Translations

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Verb

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  1. To modify 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, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 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 Friar, or the Double Discovery, London: Richard Tonson & Jacob Tonson, Act II, p. 21,[1]
      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 […]
  2. To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions optimally.
  3. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  4. To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
    • 1645, John Milton, “The Passion” in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 17,[2]
      For now to sorrow must I tune my song,
      And set my Harpe to notes of saddest wo,
  5. (transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.
  6. To sing with melody or harmony.
  7. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
    Are you tuning me?

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of tune (verb)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

References

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

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Noun

tune f (plural tunes)

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of thune

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Verb

tune

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of tunen.
  2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of tunen.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of tunen.
  4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of tunen.

Middle English

Noun

tune

  1. Alternative form of toun

Ngarrindjeri

tune or sand

Noun

tune

  1. sand

Portuguese

Verb

tune

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tunar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tunar
  3. first-person singular imperative of tunar
  4. third-person singular imperative of tunar

Spanish

Verb

tune

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tunar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tunar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tunar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tunar.

Tarantino

Pronoun

tune (personal, second person singular)

  1. you

tune m (possessive) (Feminine: toje

  1. your
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