attunen.
/əˈtjuːn/, /əˈtʃuːn/, U.S. /əˈt(j)un/ rare.
Tuneful accord, harmony.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > agreement of sounds or harmony
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attune1850
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 290 The new generations that cry In attune to our voice..‘God,’ ‘Liberty,’ ‘Truth.’
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attunev.
/əˈtjuːn/, /əˈtʃuːn/, U.S. /əˈt(j)un/ 1.
a. To bring into musical accord. Const. to.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > tune [verb (transitive)] > bring into harmony
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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Bb Gan all the quire of birdes Their diuerse notes t'attune vnto his lay.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 312 For Phemius to the Lyre attun'd the strain.
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone i. 21 Fancies wild; To which, with no reluctant strings, Thou hast attuned thy murmurings.
1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony iv. 141 Were all the notes perfectly attuned to the true natural scale.
b. figurative. To bring into harmony or accord.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] > bring into agreement or harmony
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1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 112 Social Friends, Attun'd to happy Unison of Soul.
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 90 The mind attuned to grace and harmony.
2. To bring (a musical instrument) to the right pitch; to tune. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > tune [verb (transitive)]
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1728 J. Thomson Spring 55 Harmony itself, Attuning all their Passions into Love.
1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law v. 276 The physical causes which have ‘attuned’ a material organ so as to catch certain ethereal pulsations in the external world.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxi. 227 I hear the noise of instruments attuning.
3. To make tuneful or melodious.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > produce musical sound [verb (transitive)] > make melodious
attune1667
harmonize1700
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 265 Aires, vernal aires..attune The trembling leaves. View more context for this quotation
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 308 Birds..Attune from native boughs their various lay.
1802 S. T. Coleridge in Morning Star 4 Oct. 3/1 Joy lifts thy spirit, joy attunes thy voice.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > communicate by radio [verb (transitive)] > tune
tune1887
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to tune out1908
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mistune1914
1899 R. Routledge Discov. 19th Cent. (ed. 13) 546 A Geissler tube, when its circuit is properly attuned, can be lighted up by the magneto-electric disturbances propagated without material contacts, and this itself would constitute a method of signalling to a distance.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 5/1 The message..would reach every attuned recorder within that distance.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 12/2 Inventions covering the attuning of transmitters and receivers.
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