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Definition of Tune
Tune

A sound; a note; a tone.

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.

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.

Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

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.

To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

To sing with melody or harmony.

To put into a proper state or disposition.

To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

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Tune Quotations

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
John Lee Hooker

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

Tune Translations

tune in Afrikaans is wysie, wys
tune in Dutch is in een stemming brengen, stemmen
tune in French is accorder, braquer
tune in German is abstimmen
tune in Italian is melodia


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