tune

tune is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sound; a note; a tone. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sound; a note; a tone.
2. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
5. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
7. transitive verb. To sing with melody or harmony.
8. transitive verb. To put into a proper state or disposition.
9. intransitive verb. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
10. intransitive verb. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
11. noun. the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency
12. noun. the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch

    "he cannot sing in tune"

    "the clarinet was out of tune"

13. noun. a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

    "she was humming an air from Beethoven"

    Synonyms: air, line, melody, strain

14. verb. adjust the pitches of (musical instruments)

    "My piano needs to be tuned"

15. verb. adjust for (better) functioning

    "tune the engine"

Synonyms

air, line, melody, strain

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tune:

neut

Common word forms

tuned, tuner, tunes, tuning, tuneful, tuneable, tuneless

Words from these letters

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