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tune

/tjuːn

noun

1A melody, especially one which characterizes a certain piece of music: she left the theatre humming a cheerful tune...

Jayachandran dismisses the allegation that some of the music composers lift the tune from old songs.
For the fanfares and songs, the music director used tunes from Byrd's Battle and other programmatic courtly pieces.
The music was some catchy tunes by Richard Rodgers that my friend and I were humming incessantly!

Synonyms

melody, air, strain;

song, number, jingle, ditty;

theme, motif

1.1 informal A piece of popular music: DJ Samantha provided the tunes their 1995 hit has been resurrected into a modern-day classic dance tune...

The smooth, hour-long journey along the highway with tunes blaring was exhilarating but strangely relaxing.
The dance floor spins pop tunes for the masses.
While hanging in the barn, don't forget to spin some country tunes.

verb [with object]

1Adjust (a musical instrument) to the correct or uniform pitch: he tuned the harp for me [no object]: we could hear the band tuning up...

It will take money to tune the pianos, but that is far less than what it would cost to purchase a new piano.
Now this isn't the only way to tune musical instruments.
Advertisements for a piano tuning school pictured a woman tuning an upright piano.

Synonyms

adjust (to the correct pitch), tune up

2Adjust (a receiver circuit such as a radio or television) to the frequency of the required signal: the radio was tuned to the BBC...

Some radio telescopes can be tuned to this frequency, but some simply can't.
This Radio is tuned to ‘inspirational’ easy listening and that's all we get.
One radio was tuned to the tanker-control frequency and the other radio directly to the tanker.

2.1 [no object] (tune in) Watch or listen to a television or radio broadcast: tune in next week and find out!...

Louise ruefully confessed she rarely tunes in to watch television these days.
Listeners can also tune in to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire who will broadcast from many of the buildings on the day.
Millions of fans will be tuning in to watch the match on television.

2.2 (tune something out) Exclude a sound or transmission of a particular frequency: certain tones would be muted or tuned out entirely...

There's such an overload of environmental messages that people are tuning it out.
Brooke tuned their conversation out, her thoughts focusing on Duncan.
Brooke tuned the voice out at that point.

3Adjust (an engine) or balance (mechanical parts) so that a vehicle runs smoothly and efficiently: the suspension was tuned for a softer ride...

What a difference in performance when your body, like your vehicle, is finely tuned and ‘adjusted’.
If you show me a dad who thinks he's a great car mechanic, I will show you a badly tuned engine.
Before tuning the engine, you must use a fuel injector additive to improve injection.

4Adjust or adapt (something) to a particular purpose or situation: the animals are finely tuned to life in the desert...

Bone is a structure finely tuned to its mechanical environment.
Our own internal pacemaker tunes our mental and physical energy levels more or less to the cycles of sunlight.

Synonyms

attune, adapt, adjust, fine-tune;

regulate, modulate, calibrate

5 [with two objects] South African informal Tell (something) to (someone): he starts tuning you stories about his youth

Transferred use of tune 'adjust, put right'

Phrases

call the tune

change one's tune

in (or out of) tune

there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

to the tune of

Phrasal verbs

be tuned in

tune into

tune out

Derivatives

tunable

/ˈtjuːnəb(ə)l/ (also tuneable) adjective ...

Most scientists strongly distrust large-scale numerical models which rely heavily on tuneable parameters and other artificial constraints to keep them from going haywire.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a number of expensive tunable radios begin to pop up in specialty electronics catalogs.
Each of the ground harps has 22 tunable pairs of strings organised in a pentatonic scale, rather like the tuning of a lute.

Origin

Late Middle English: unexplained alteration of tone. The verb is first recorded (late 15th century) in the sense 'celebrate in music, sing'.

单词	tune
释义	tune /tjuːn / noun 1A melody, especially one which characterizes a certain piece of music: she left the theatre humming a cheerful tune... Jayachandran dismisses the allegation that some of the music composers lift the tune from old songs. For the fanfares and songs, the music director used tunes from Byrd's Battle and other programmatic courtly pieces. The music was some catchy tunes by Richard Rodgers that my friend and I were humming incessantly! Synonyms melody, air, strain; song, number, jingle, ditty; theme, motif 1.1 informal A piece of popular music: DJ Samantha provided the tunes their 1995 hit has been resurrected into a modern-day classic dance tune... The smooth, hour-long journey along the highway with tunes blaring was exhilarating but strangely relaxing. The dance floor spins pop tunes for the masses. While hanging in the barn, don't forget to spin some country tunes. verb [with object] 1Adjust (a musical instrument) to the correct or uniform pitch: he tuned the harp for me [no object]: we could hear the band tuning up... It will take money to tune the pianos, but that is far less than what it would cost to purchase a new piano. Now this isn't the only way to tune musical instruments. Advertisements for a piano tuning school pictured a woman tuning an upright piano. Synonyms adjust (to the correct pitch), tune up 2Adjust (a receiver circuit such as a radio or television) to the frequency of the required signal: the radio was tuned to* the BBC... Some radio telescopes can be tuned to this frequency, but some simply can't. This Radio is tuned to ‘inspirational’ easy listening and that's all we get. One radio was tuned to the tanker-control frequency and the other radio directly to the tanker. 2.1 [no object]* (tune in) Watch or listen to a television or radio broadcast: tune in next week and find out!... Louise ruefully confessed she rarely tunes in to watch television these days. Listeners can also tune in to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire who will broadcast from many of the buildings on the day. Millions of fans will be tuning in to watch the match on television. 2.2 (tune something out) Exclude a sound or transmission of a particular frequency: certain tones would be muted or tuned out entirely... There's such an overload of environmental messages that people are tuning it out. Brooke tuned their conversation out, her thoughts focusing on Duncan. Brooke tuned the voice out at that point. 3Adjust (an engine) or balance (mechanical parts) so that a vehicle runs smoothly and efficiently: the suspension was tuned for a softer ride... What a difference in performance when your body, like your vehicle, is finely tuned and ‘adjusted’. If you show me a dad who thinks he's a great car mechanic, I will show you a badly tuned engine. Before tuning the engine, you must use a fuel injector additive to improve injection. 4Adjust or adapt (something) to a particular purpose or situation: the animals are finely tuned to* life in the desert... Bone is a structure finely tuned to its mechanical environment. Our own internal pacemaker tunes our mental and physical energy levels more or less to the cycles of sunlight. Synonyms attune, adapt, adjust, fine-tune; regulate, modulate, calibrate 5 [with two objects]* South African informal Tell (something) to (someone): he starts tuning you stories about his youth Transferred use of tune 'adjust, put right' Phrases call the tune change one's tune in (or out of) tune there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle to the tune of Phrasal verbs be tuned in tune into tune out Derivatives tunable /ˈtjuːnəb(ə)l/ (also tuneable) adjective ... Most scientists strongly distrust large-scale numerical models which rely heavily on tuneable parameters and other artificial constraints to keep them from going haywire. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a number of expensive tunable radios begin to pop up in specialty electronics catalogs. Each of the ground harps has 22 tunable pairs of strings organised in a pentatonic scale, rather like the tuning of a lute. Origin Late Middle English: unexplained alteration of tone. The verb is first recorded (late 15th century) in the sense 'celebrate in music, sing'. Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon
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tune

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tunable

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