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noun

Tune n.

1.

A sound; a note; a tone. "The tune of your voices."

2.

(Mus.)

(a)

A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.

(b)

The state of giving the proper sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune. "Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."

3.

Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood. "A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he... is dragged unwillingly to (his task)."

verb

Tune v. t. (past & past part. tuned; pres. part. tuning)

1.

To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. " Tune your harps."

2.

To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious. "For now to sorrow must I tune my song."

3.

To sing with melody or harmony. "Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise."

4.

To put into a proper state or disposition.

Tune v. i.

1.

To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds. "Whilst tuning to the water's fall, The small birds sang to her."

2.

To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tune" Quotes from Famous Books

... now. Considerably cheered by this logic he slipped his grimy report into its still more grimy envelope and began to whistle. Buoyed up by comfortable reveries he whistled fully five minutes, when the tune came to an abrupt end. A step on the gravel had arrested it. Looking around Peter saw his father coming along the drive ...

— The Story of Leather • Sara Ware Bassett

... again what did I say to ee about missee? What did I say? Didn't I as good as tellee witch way she cast a sheepz i? That indeed would a be summut! An you will jig your heels amunk the jerry cum poopz, you might a then dance to some tune. I a warruntee I a got all a my i teeth imme head. What doesn't I know witch way the wind sets when I sees the chimblee smoke? To be sure I duz; as well with a wench as a weather-cock! Didn't I tellee y'ad a more ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... demanded the retraction of those honors, and a public admission of suicide. To pay a money indemnity and cashier a governor was no great hardship, but how could the court submit to the humiliation of dancing to the tune of a French piper? An English surgeon declared, in a sealed report of autopsy, that the wounds must have been self-inflicted, as their position made it impossible for them to have been ...

— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin

... high-pressure cylinder. "Whack her up, boys. They've given us five pounds more steam"; and he began humming the first bars of "Said the young Obadiah to the old Obadiah," which, as you may have noticed, is a pet tune among engines not built for high speed. Racing-liners with twin-screws sing "The Turkish Patrol" and the overture to the "Bronze Horse," and "Madame Angot," till something goes wrong, and then they render Gounod's "Funeral March of a ...

— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling

... Strand I turn, And down a dark lane to the quiet river, One stream of silver under the full moon, And think of how cold searchlights flare and burn Over dank trenches where men crouch and shiver. Humming, to keep their hearts up, that same tune. ...

— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various

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