• Tune

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /tjuːn/, /tʃuːn/
    • US IPA: /tuːn/
    • Rhymes: -uːn

    Origin

    From Middle English tune, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τονός (tonos, "a tone"); see tone, of which tune is a doublet.

    Full definition of tune

    Noun

    tune

    (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 song.You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune!
    6. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
      • Shakespearethe tune of your voices
    7. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
      • John LockeA child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he ... is dragged unwillingly to task.

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    Verb

    1. To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.to tune a piano or a violin
      • DrydenTune your harps.
    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.
    4. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
      • MiltonFor now to sorrow must I tune my song.
    5. To sing with melody or harmony.
      • MiltonFountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
        Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
    6. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.Are you tuning me?

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