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say it: toon
tune is a noun and verb meaning "a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence". It is pronounced /ˈtun/ — toon. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
“she was humming an air from Beethoven”
the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch
“he cannot sing in tune”
“the clarinet was out of tune”
the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tune come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.