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From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone,[1] from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.

tune (countable and uncountable, plural tunes)

  1. A melody.
    Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.
  2. A song, or short musical composition.
  3. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
    Your engine needs a good tune.
  4. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
    Your engine is now in tune.
    This piano is not in tune.
  5. (obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.
  6. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
  7. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.

melody

song, short musical composition

Translations to be checked

tune

  1. (UK, slang) Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.
    You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? — Tune!

Translations

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.
    to tune a piano or a violin
    • 1568, William Cornishe [_i.e._, William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: […] C. Davis […], 1736, →OCLC, page 290:
      The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 21:
      She bids me hope; oh Heav'ns; ſhe pities me! / And pity ſtill foreruns approching love; / As Lightning does the Thunder! Tune your Harps / Ye Angels to that ſound; and thou, my Heart, / Make room to entertain thy flowing Joy.
    • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 199, lines 190–191:
      Fortune foretun'd the Dying Notes of Rome: / Till I, thy Conſul ſole, conſol'd thy Doom.
  2. To adjust or modify (especially a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
    Coordinate term: dial in
    Tuning the engine gave me an extra twenty horsepower.
    Tune your mind, and anything becomes possible.
  3. To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
    Synonym: tune in
    Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.
  4. Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
    My ears were tuned to the sounds of the forest.
  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.
    • 1977 April 9, Charley Shively, “Ginsberg Triumphant”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
      Ginsberg sang some poems from William Blake which he had "tuned".
  9. (obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 195-196:
      Fountains and yee, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praiſe.
  10. (transitive, South Africa, slang) To be impudent towards; to cheek.
    Are you tuning me?
  11. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (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.)

to adjust a musical instrument

to adjust (e.g. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally — see also adjust,‎ calibrate

to adapt to or direct towards a particular target — see also adjust

to make more precise, intense, or effective — see also adjust,‎ adapt

to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software

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tune f (plural tunes)

  1. (slang) alternative spelling of thune

tune

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

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

tune

  1. real; genuine; original
    Synonym: tutu

tune

  1. alternative form of toun

tune or sand

tune

  1. sand

tūne

  1. dative singular of tūn

tune

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

tune

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

tune

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

tune (personal, second person singular)

  1. you

tune m (possessive, feminine toje)

  1. your