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tune English

Meaning tune meaning

What does tune mean?
Definitions in simple English

tune Noun

— A tune is a piece or part of music; a song or melody. Whistling a happy tune can chase the blues away. How many tunes can you whistle?

tune Verb

— If you tune a musical instrument you make it so it will play the right notes. You tune it by making the strings tighter or looser. — If you tune a radio you set the frequency to get a certain signal. — If you tune-in to a show, you watch it or listen to it.

tune

— noun (= air) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence she was humming an air from Beethoven — verb adjust for (better) functioning tune the engine — verb adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) My piano needs to be tuned — noun the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch he cannot sing in tune the clarinet was out of tune — noun the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency

Synonyms tune synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as tune?

tune English » English

melody tone air strain song note attune tune up intonation adjust melodic phrase melodic line line sound pitch harmony aria accent voice rhythm music motif mood modulation key wind tune in trim syntonize spirits regulate piece of music measure fit concord chant adapt way verse vein uvula unison tweak tunefulness trend tonal pattern time tidy theme tempo

Topics tune topics

What do people use tune to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Music

Play music
Social behavior Social activity Music

Sing
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Social behavior Social activity

Music
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Listen
Social behavior Relationships

Disunity
States Quality Type, kind Compare

Same

Conjugation tune conjugation

How do you conjugate tune?

tune · verb

Examples tune examples

How do I use tune in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom walked down the street whistling a happy tune.
I know the tune, but I don't know the words.
Please tune my guitar for me.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
The tune was not familiar to me.
The piano was out of tune; it sounded very bad.
I had to pay the bill to the tune of ten dollars.
The guitar is in tune.
Eric played a sweet tune on the piano.
I can't remember the tune of that song.
The receptionist changed her tune.
When he gets up on stage to sing one of his out-of-tune solos, I get so nervous for him that I get sweaty palms.
They sang in tune.
She played a tune on the piano.
She sings out of tune.
That very tune reminded me of my adolescence.
I wanted the musician to play some sad tune on his flute.
Being at the concert hall full of young kids made an old duffer like me feel out of tune.
He began to whistle a tune.
I can't get this silly tune out of my head!
Tom whistled a tune as he walked along the river.
Tom went to school to learn how to tune pianos.
Tom played a Spanish folk tune on his English horn at a Chinese restaurant in France.
Even if you sing out of tune, join us.
Tom heard someone humming his favorite tune.

Movie subtitles

A few weeks of idleness sitting around with the missus and you might change your tune.
That tune again!
How can they play such a sad tune?
Allow me, I order the national anthem to be remade to a merry tune.
Oh, just a good tune.
Just a good tune, see?
I've come to apologize and say good-bye with a tune.
That's not a bad tune.
So, you're changing your tune?
I am therefore going to ask anyone here who is not in tune with us...to submit to a very simple process of control.
There I go again. I wish I could get that damn tune out of my head.
Hear that tune?
Charming tune.
Isn't that your tune, Marguerite?
Can't you get your girl to sing in tune?
A most respectable man. who'll soon be chirping a different tune.
Would you mind changing your tune?
A piano. One that's in tune.
Kids, let's hear smashing farewell tune!
Kids, Kids, let's hear smashing farewell tune!
Both boys are fiddling in the ring, and I don't think much of the tune.
Tune in on the radio if you want to know how the game's going.
Can't you whistle another tune? That's all I've heard for three weeks.
And then you will sing a different tune.
Come on, you stayed because you know the tune.
TO JUST TUNE OUT THE NEGATIVES AND SEE THE POSITIVES.
Honey, you've got the words, but not the tune.
I've told you before, you've got the words but not the tune.
There's no escape from that tune anywhere.
We're writing in a little dance tune for you.
Don't write any dance tune for me.
Oh, so you're changing your tune, eh?
What about a tune, boy?
Pretty fellow, play a livelier tune that I can make this puny rascal dance to.

News and current affairs

The 13th Party Congress, in tune with the rising democratic sentiments of the time, was the first to use the differential system for electing members of the Central Committee.
In the current negotiations, we can still fine-tune the roles of the European and national supervisors, but ultimate authority must rest with the ECB.Non-eurozone EU members that do not want to join the single supervisory mechanism.
But politics, not economics, explains why the Fed chairman changed his tune about America's weak external position.
At some level, we all pretend to tune into the Olympics to admire human athleticism.
These countries cannot launch stimulus measures, but the EU could let them fine-tune the pace of consolidation, provided that they are able to commit to comprehensive cuts in the future.
Disagreement with government policy can often help rulers fine-tune or correct misdirected policies.
In tune with international enthusiasm for green energy investment, the Danish government intends to expand wind power dramatically by 2020.
So why is the US now singing a different tune?
They were taken because Mr. Tung and his allies wish to demonstrate how in tune they are with official thinking on the mainland.
But are they in tune?
Here comes the second, hidden reason: Europe's finance ministers cannot make the ECB march to their tune but they can negotiate international currency deals.
When first produced and published, these ideas seem almost irrelevant, and at any rate out of tune with the spirit of the times.
Also at the top of the AKP's agenda is choosing a president in tune with its worldview.
China bashers typically change their tune after a presidential election.
Today, the EU is dancing to Fidel's tune.
Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.
The regime of former President Viktor Yanukovych was dancing to the Kremlin's tune, and my confinement ended only because of the courage of the millions of Ukrainians who demanded its ouster.
But when it comes to recognizing that reality in the world's international financial institutions, they adopt a different tune.
Samuelson, who called the theory of comparative advantage the most beautiful thing in economics, changed his tune a bit at the end of his life.
Indeed, while millions of Arabs tune in weekly to watch and vote for their favorite singers on the Arabic version of The Voice and Arab Idol, a fund-raising campaign for the benefit of Syrian refugees has yet to be organized.
Yet men all over the world tune in to American-made fantasies of male bonding and male escape - escape from the bonds of work and domesticity, and, if only for a youthful period of the male lifespan, from long-term commitment to women themselves.

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