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tune
English
Etymology
From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tju?n/, /t?u?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /t(j)un/
- Rhymes: -u?n
- Homophone: chewn (among those with yod-coalescence in stressed syllables)
Noun
tune (countable and uncountable, plural tunes)
- A melody.
- A song, or short musical composition.
- (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
- The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
- (obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.
- (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
- (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
Derived terms
Related terms
- tone
Translations
Interjection
tune
- (Britain, slang) Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.
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.
- 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 […]
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery, London: Richard Tonson & Jacob Tonson, Act II, p. 21,[1]
- To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
- 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.
- Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.
- (e.g. of senses or faculties) 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.
- 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,
- 1645, John Milton, “The Passion” in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 17,[2]
- (transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.
- (obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,[3]
- To see great Hercules whipping a gig,
- And profound Solomon to tune a jig,
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 5, lines 195-196,[4]
- Fountains and yee, that warble, as ye flow,
- Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,[3]
- (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
- Are you tuning me?
Derived terms
Related terms
- attune
Translations
Further reading
- tune in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tune in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- Nute, neut, neut.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tyn/
Noun
tune f (plural tunes)
- (slang) Alternative spelling of thune
Further reading
- “tune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tenu
German
Verb
tune
- inflection of tunen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle English
Noun
tune
- Alternative form of toun
Ngarrindjeri
Noun
tune
- sand
Portuguese
Verb
tune
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tunar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tunar
- first-person singular imperative of tunar
- third-person singular imperative of tunar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?tune]
Verb
tune
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tuna
- third-person plural present subjunctive of tuna
Spanish
Verb
tune
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tunar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tunar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tunar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tunar.
Tarantino
Pronoun
tune (personal, second person singular)
- you
tune m (possessive, feminine toje)
- your
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tunelessly
English
Etymology
tuneless +? -ly
Adverb
tunelessly (comparative more tunelessly, superlative most tunelessly)
- In a tuneless manner.
- 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 8, p. 159,[1]
- After a pause that he spent whistling tunelessly under his breath, he said: “Hello, Miss Henry? […] ”
- 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 8, p. 159,[1]
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