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   Tune , n. [A variant of tone.]
   A sound; a note; a tone. “The tune of your voices.”
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   (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.
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   Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
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   Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
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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].
   Locke.
   
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   Tune, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tuned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tuning.]
   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. “ Tune your harps.”
   Dryden.
   
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   To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
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   For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
   Milton.
   
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   To sing with melody or harmony.
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   Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
   Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
   Milton.
   
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   To put into a proper state or disposition.
   Shak.
   
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   Tune , v. i.
   To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
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   Whilst tuning to the water's fall,
   The small birds sang to her.
   Drayton.
   
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   To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. [R.]
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