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The Meaning of tune

  • (n.) A sound; a note; a tone.
  • (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
  • (n.) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
  • (n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
  • (v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
  • (v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
  • (v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
  • (v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.
  • (v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
  • (v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

Synonyms

aviation , personal credit line , cable , business , billet , stemma , tenor , stress , variant , ancestry , agate line , lineage , crinkle , stock , telephone circuit , pains , seam , breeze , bloodline , melodic phrase , air travel , demarcation , course , crease , melodic line , air , zephyr , short letter , nervous strain , line of products , job , assembly line , contrast , nisus , aura , product line , straining , line of work , blood , bank line , line of merchandise , rail line , personal line of credit , form , melody , song , mental strain , strain , dividing line , transmission line , breed , airwave , line of descent , argumentation , channel , logical argument , phone line , furrow , atmosphere , parentage , wrinkle , descent , blood line , gentle wind , tonal pattern , occupation , line of business , var. , pedigree , pipeline , line of credit , line , business line , railway line , striving , subscriber line , origin , communication channel , telephone line , credit line , production line , line of reasoning , note , argument , tune up , adjust , set , correct

Antonyms

untune

Homophones

toon

Rhymes

afternoon , antoon , aoun , attune , baboon , balloon , banoun , barloon , bassoon , boon , boone , broun , bruen , brune , bruun , buffoon , cahoon , calhoon , calhoun , cameroon , cancun , cardoon , cartoon , choon , clune , cocoon , commune , contrabassoon , coon , coone , corroon , croon , dekroon , disharoon , ducommun , dune , festoon , galloon , goon , gruen , hamdoon , harpoon , heun , hewn , honeymoon , hoon , huntoon , immune , impugn , inopportune , joon , june , karoun , karun , keune , koon , koone , kroon , kuehne , kuhn , laffoon , lagoon , lampoon , loon , magoon , majnoon , maroon , mattoon , mcclune , mccuen , mccune , mhoon , midafternoon , monsoon , moon , moone , muldoon , noon , noone , opportune , pantaloon , picayune , platoon , pontoon , poon , prune , raccoon , rangoon , rune , saloon , saskatoon , sassoon , schoon , shoen , shoon , soon , spoon , strewn , suen , swoon , tablespoon , teaspoon , terhune , thune , toon , tycoon , typhoon , verboon , witherspoon , xiaoyun , yoon