Thesaurus: tune

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1. n. A sound; a note; a tone.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. n. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
5. 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.
6. v. t. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
7. v. t. To sing with melody or harmony.
8. v. t. To put into a proper state or disposition.
9. v. i. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
10. v. i. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
11. n. a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
12. n. the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch