tune > define

noun

• A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
  • usage: "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
  • synonyms: melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
• The property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch.
  • usage: "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune"
• The adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency.

verb

• Adjust for (better) functioning.
  • usage: "tune the engine"
  • synonyms: tune up
• Adjust the pitches of (musical instruments. )
  • usage: "My piano needs to be tuned"
  • synonyms: tune up

• (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.
• (v.t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
• (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.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper or humor; right mood.
• (v.t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.
• (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.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.