Synonyms for tune
tun, tyuntune

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. tune

   Synonyms:
   strain, melody, air

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1. tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrasenoun

   a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

   "she was humming an air from Beethoven"

   Synonyms:
   aviation, personal credit line, cable, business, billet, stemma, tenor, stress, variant, ancestry, agate line, lineage, crinkle, stock, telephone circuit, pains, seam, breeze, bloodline, melodic phrase, air travel, demarcation, course, crease, melodic line, air, zephyr, short letter, nervous strain, line of products, job, assembly line, contrast, nisus, aura, product line, straining, line of work, blood, bank line, line of merchandise, rail line, personal line of credit, form, melody, song, mental strain, strain, dividing line, transmission line, breed, airwave, line of descent, argumentation, channel, logical argument, phone line, furrow, atmosphere, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, gentle wind, tonal pattern, occupation, line of business, var., pedigree, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, striving, subscriber line, origin, communication channel, telephone line, credit line, production line, line of reasoning, note, argument

   Antonyms:
   untune

2. tunenoun

   the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch

   "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune"

   Synonyms:
   melodic phrase, melodic line, line, strain, air, melody

   Antonyms:
   untune

3. tuneverb

   the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency

   Synonyms:
   melodic phrase, melodic line, line, strain, air, melody

   Antonyms:
   untune

4. tune, tune upverb

   adjust for (better) functioning

   "tune the engine"

   Synonyms:
   tune up

   Antonyms:
   untune

5. tune, tune upverb

   adjust the pitches of (musical instruments)

   "My piano needs to be tuned"

   Synonyms:
   tune up

   Antonyms:
   untune

Matched Categories

1. • Adjust
   • Music
   • Pitch

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tunenoun

   Synonyms:
   air, melody, strain, movement

2. tunenoun

   Synonyms:
   concord, harmony

3. tuneverb

   Synonyms:
   harmonize, accord, modulate, attune, put in tune

4. tuneverb

   Synonyms:
   sing

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1. tunenoun

   Synonyms:
   air, melody, order, harmony, unison, concord, accord

2. tuneverb

   Synonyms:
   attune, modulate, harmonize

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1. List of paraphrases for "tune":

   melody, song, adjust, height, harmony, air, amount, line, tuning

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1. Albert Einstein:

   Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

2. Jacqueline Dougé:

   We also need to tune in to our own emotions as adults and check that we're OK, and if we're not OK, then we got to ask for help. We've got to get help to deal with the trauma and emotional impact of these images.

3. Zhu Ming:

   It’s harder to create the nose and lips compatible to her face than in the cases of most of our adult patients because her facial bones and soft tissue have become enormously deformed over the years, the patient will have a larger than normal nose after the entire first phase of treatment is finished, and then we will ‘ fine tune ’ her facial features.

4. White House:

   Look back from shortly before the president launched his campaign to now, the accuracy rate of pundits’ negative predictions about him or his strategies is dismal, our MO, by contrast, has aged well: Tune out the noise, do the work, deliver; and remember that the president knows the American people and they know him.

5. Keir Starmer:

   We're not going to dance to Boris Johnson tune, it's obvious what Boris Johnson's up to. Boris Johnson wants to intercept this bill having lost control of parliament and stop us finishing the task in hand.