Tune
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /tjuËn/, /tʃuËn/
- US IPA: /tuËn/
- Rhymes: -uËn
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)- 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.
- Shakespearethe tune of your voices
- (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
- To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.to tune a piano or a violin
- DrydenTune 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.
- To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
- MiltonFor now to sorrow must I tune my song.
- To sing with melody or harmony.
- MiltonFountains, 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?