tune

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English

Alternative forms

• toon (eye-dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tjuːn/, /tʃuːn/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /t(j)un/
• (Wales, Canada) IPA^(key): /tɪu̯n/
• Rhymes: -uːn
• Homophone: chewn (yod-coalescence)
• Hyphenation: tune

Noun

tune (countable and uncountable, plural tunes)

1. A melody.
2. A song, or short musical composition.
3. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.

4. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.

5. (obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.
6. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
7. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tone

Descendants

• → Irish: tiúin, tuin
• → Welsh: tiwn

Translations

Interjection

tune

1. (UK, slang) Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.

Translations

Verb

tune (third-person singular simple present tunes, present participle tuning, simple past and past participle tuned)

1. To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
2. To adjust or modify (especially a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.

   Coordinate term: dial in

3. To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.

   Synonym: tune in

4. Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.

5. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
6. To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
7. (transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.
8. (transitive) To set (lyrics) to music.
9. (obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.
10. (transitive, South Africa, slang) To be impudent towards; to cheek.

12. (fandom slang) to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)

Derived terms

Related terms

• attune

Translations

References

Further reading

• “tune”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tune”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Nute, neut, neut.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyn/

Noun

tune f (plural tunes)

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of thune

Further reading

• “tune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tenu

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tune

1. inflection of tunen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tunay (cf. Tagalog tunay, Indonesian tunai, Malay tunai).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊˈne/ [tʊˈnɛ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ne

Adjective

tune

1. real; genuine

Middle English

Noun

tune

1. Alternative form of toun

Ngarrindjeri

Noun

tune

1. sand

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.ne/

Noun

tūne

1. dative singular of tūn

Portuguese

Verb

tune

1. inflection of tunar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtune]

Verb

tune

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of tuna

Spanish

Verb

tune

1. inflection of tunar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Tarantino

Pronoun

tune (personal, second person singular)

1. you

Pronoun

tune m (possessive, feminine toje)

1. your