Noun: tune
Sample Sentences
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Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.
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Your engine needs a good tune.
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Your engine is now in tune.
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This piano is not in tune.
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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. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 12, column 2:]
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A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task]. [1693, [John Locke], “§72”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 76:]
Nouns inflected like tune
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus. See: Middle English Nouns '
tune', Latin Nouns '
tonus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
τόνος'.
Verbs referencing "tune"
Irish Nouns
tuin, Irish Nouns
tiúin, French Nouns
toune.