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reˈtune, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
a. trans. To tune (a musical instrument) again. Also fig. and transf.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Trophies 1040 Whose sacred Art retuneth excellent This rarely-sweet celestiall Instrument. a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 119 Their Discords in God's Praise unite, Retun'd by providential Might. a1806H. K. White Poems (1837) 84 Retune thy strings for Jesus' sake. 1890Spectator 1 Feb., War, which may retune the nerves of the people and bleed out their fullness of habit.
b. To rephrase (the words of a song, etc.).
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. vii. 107 In no great space of time the schoolchild ditty, When I was young and had no sense I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence,..was re-tuned in her honour: Lottie Collins, she had no sense, She bought a piano for eighteen pence.
c. To tune (electronic equipment) to a different frequency. Also absol.
1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors xiv. 357 It is desirable to retune the input and output circuits to satisfy this condition. 1970R. Hill Clubbable Woman vii. 204 Jenny's portable radio began to play..brass-band music. This faded..but then returned louder than before as though the set had been re-tuned. 1977Sci. Amer. June 77/2 He need only retune his receiver to a slightly lower frequency. 1978Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 13/6 Does the BBC realise that the surest way to make you either switch off or re-tune is to make you unsure about what is actually going out?
d. To alter the tuning of (an engine).
1974P. Cave Mama (new ed.) ii. 10 He was the unofficial repairman of the London Angels, the guy who could take a beaten-up old engine and retune it until it could fly.
Hence reˈtuning vbl. n.
1909M. Greenwood in L. Hill Further Adv. Physiol. 410 ‘Retuning’ with orange, red and green both act like orange itself in inducing a negative image. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 390/1 It provides a substantially constant power gain over the whole of the band 1·5Mc/s to 24Mc/s and therefore needs no retuning when the working frequency is changed. 1976D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance ix. 77/4 Mattheson's complaint that a lutenist spent most of his life tuning rather than actually playing reflects the inconvenient necessity of regular re-tunings, which upset the stability of the instrument. |