tune meaning
EN[tjuːn] [tʃuːn] [t(j)un] [-uːn]US
WTune
- Tune may refer to:
- A melody
- A tune-family
- To tune an instrument (Musical tuning)
- To tune a radio (Radio tuning)
- To tune a car (Car tuning)
- To tune an engine (Engine tuning)
- A tune (folk music), a short piece of instrumental music, usually with repeating sections, and often played a number of times
- British slang term, often said when referring to a piece of music that is enjoyed
- Tune, a town in Denmark
- Tune, a village in Norway
- Tune ship, a museum exhibition in Norway
- Tune Ventures, Malaysian investment company
FR tune
- NounPLtunes
- 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.
- (Britain, slang) A very good song.
- You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune!
- (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
- (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
- A melody.
- VerbSGtunesPRtuningPT, PPtuned
- To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
- to tune a piano or a violin
- 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.
- To sing with melody or harmony.
- (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
- Are you tuning me?
- To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I've just tuned my car, and now it's running like a top.
- The suspect changed his tune when he learned the police had the evidence.
- The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I need to fiddle with the strings on my violin. It doesn't sound in tune.
- Policy was to be bold, not timid; campaign promises were to be carried out, not cynically shelved; and the public service would dance to a new tune, one where the ministers called the tune.
- You can choose to override these laws, you can change the game, you can dance to a different tune.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tune in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary