Tune

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A sound; a note; a tone.

II. Tune ·vt To sing with melody or harmony.

III. Tune ·vt To put into a proper state or disposition.

IV. Tune ·vi To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

V. Tune ·noun Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

VI. Tune ·vt To give tone to; to Attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

VII. Tune ·vi To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to Hum.

VIII. Tune ·vt 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.

IX. Tune ·noun 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.

X. Tune ·noun 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.

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