tune
/tjuːn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
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Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums."
- "Your engine needs a good tune."
- "Your engine is now in tune."
- "This piano is not in tune."
- "Pray you now, if it may the ſtand with the tune of your voices, that I may bee Conſull, I haue heere the Cuſtomarie Gowne."
- "A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task]."
Etymology
From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.