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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishtune, an unexplained variant oftone,[1] fromOld Frenchton, fromLatintonus, fromAncient Greekτόνος(tónos,“a tone”).Doublet oftone,ton, andtonus.

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Noun

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tune (countable anduncountable,pluraltunes)

  1. Amelody.
    Eric played a catchytune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.
  2. Asong, or shortmusicalcomposition.
  3. (informal) The act oftuning or maintenance.
    Your engine needs a goodtune.
  4. The state or condition of being correctlytuned.
    Your engine is now intune.
    This piano is not intune.
  5. (obsolete)Temper;frame of mind.
  6. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
  7. (obsolete)Order;harmony;concord.

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Translations

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melody
song, short musical composition
informal: act of tuning
state of being correctly tuned
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Interjection

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tune

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

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Verb

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tune (third-person singular simple presenttunes,present participletuning,simple past and past participletuned)

  1. To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
    totune 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 KyngHenry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, inJohn Skelton, edited byJ[ohn] S[tow],Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, London: […] Thomas Marshe,→OCLC; republished asPithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: […] C. Davis […],1736,→OCLC,page290:
      The Harpe.[…] A harper with his wreſt mayetune 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 andJacob Tonson, […],→OCLC, Act II,page21:
      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”, inThe Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires ofAulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […],→OCLC,page199, lines190–191:
      Fortune foretun'd the Dying Notes ofRome: / 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 on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
    Synonym:tune in
    Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.
  4. Offaculties,senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
    My ears weretuned to the sounds of the forest.
  5. Tomakemoreprecise,intense, oreffective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
  6. Toattune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
  7. (transitive) To give a certaintone orcharacter to.
  8. (transitive) To set (lyrics) to music.
    • 1977 April 9, Charley Shively, “Ginsberg Triumphant”, inGay Community News, page12:
      Ginsberg sang some poems from William Blake which he had "tuned".
  9. (obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.
  10. (transitive, South Africa, slang) To beimpudent towards; tocheek.
    Are youtuning me?
  12. (Should wedelete(+) this sense?)(fandomslang) toadjust theparameters ofsingingvoicesynthesissoftware such asVOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)
    • 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.,tuningMiku'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 expressiontuning applied.
    • 2020, Janice L. Waldron, Stephanie Horsley, Kari K. Veblen,The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning, Oxford University Press, USA,→ISBN, page522:
      This compiling of a track holds many parallels with “tuning” aMiku track,[…]

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Translations

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to adjust a musical instrument
to adjust (e.g. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally
to adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel
to adapt to or direct towards a particular target
to make more precise, intense, or effective
to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software

References

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

Further reading

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French

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Noun

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tune f (pluraltunes)

  1. (slang)alternative spelling ofthune

Further reading

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tune

  1. inflection oftunen:
    1. first-personsingularpresent
    2. first/third-personsingularsubjunctive I
    3. singularimperative

Kapampangan

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Etymology

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FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*tunay (cf.Tagalogtunay,Indonesiantunai,Malaytunai).

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 oftoun

Ngarrindjeri

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tune or sand

Noun

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tune

  1. sand

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tūne

  1. dativesingular oftūn

Portuguese

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Verb

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tune

  1. inflection oftunar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tune

  1. third-personsingular/pluralpresentsubjunctive oftuna

Spanish

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Verb

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tune

  1. inflection oftunar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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,femininetoje)

  1. your
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