Tunename

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  A surname.

tunenoun/tjuːn/

• 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

  informalThe 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

  obsoleteTemper; frame of mind.

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  obsoleteA sound; a note; a tone.

  • Pray you now, if it may the ſtand with the tune of your voices, that I may bee Conſull, I haue heere the Cuſtomarie Gowne.
• 7

  obsoleteOrder; harmony; concord.

  • A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task].

tuneintj/tjuːn/

• 1

  slangUsed to show appreciation or approval of a song.

  • You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? — Tune!

tuneverb/tjuːn/

• 1

  To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.

  • to tune a piano or a violin
  • The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
• 2

  To adjust or modify (especially a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.

  • Tuning the engine gave me an extra twenty horsepower.
  • Tune your mind, and anything becomes possible.
• 3

  To adjust the frequency of a transmitter or receiver, such as on a radio or TV transmitter or receiver, so as to send or receive an electromagnetic signal through a desired frequency band or channel.

  • 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.

  • [H]ee hath incurred the euerlaſting diſpleaſure of the King, who had euen tun'd his bounty to ſing happineſſe to him.
• 6

  slanglifestyleTo make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.

  • […] Those who are highly skilled in manipulating the Vocaloid technology—e.g., tuning Miku's singing voices—arrange existing[…]
  • LOLA's voice is used simply to render basic notes and words with no pitch or expression tuning applied.
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  To adjust the frequency of a transmitter or receiver, such as on a radio or TV transmitter or receiver, so as to send or receive an electromagnetic signal through a desired frequency band or channel.

• 8

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

  • For now to ſorrow must I tune my ſong, / And ſet my Harpe to notes of ſaddeſt wo, […]