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English Dictionary: tune	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for tune
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tune n a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" Synonym(s): tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune" the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency v adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine" [syn: tune, tune up] adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); "My piano needs to be tuned" Synonym(s): tune, tune up Antonym(s): untune
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tune \Tune\, n. [A variant of tone.] 1. A sound; a note; a tone. [bd]The tune of your voices.[b8] --Shak. 2. (Mus.) (a) 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}. (b) 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. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. --Shak. 3. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood. A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to [his task]. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tune \Tune\, v. i. 1. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds. Whilst tuning to the water's fall, The small birds sang to her. --Drayton. 2. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tune \Tune\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tuned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tuning}.] 1. 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. [bd] Tune your harps.[b8] --Dryden.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
tune vt. [from automotive or musical usage] To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp. by adjusting numerical parameters designed as {hook}s for tuning, e.g., by changing `#define' lines in C. One may `tune for time' (fastest execution), `tune for space' (least memory use), or `tune for configuration' (most efficient use of hardware). See {bum}, {hot spot}, {hand-hacking}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tune (From musical, possibly via automotive, usage) To {optimise} a program or system for a particular environment, especially by adjusting numerical parameters designed as {hooks} for tuning, e.g. by changing "#define" lines in C. One may "tune for time" (fastest execution), "tune for space" (least memory use), or "tune for configuration" (most efficient use of hardware). See {bum}, {hot spot}, {hand-hacking}. [{Jargon File}] (1999-06-05)