(v. t.) A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.
(v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
(v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They were mildly offensive," says Shapiro of their ditties.
(2) 12.22am BST The other politics ditty being shared rather widely at the present time is this one.
(3) There's a scene in Friday Night Dinner when Adam, a jingle writer by trade, gathers the family around a radio to hear his ditty for a car-insurance company.
(4) 'Marx had a soft spot for entrepreneurs,' Jeremy told me Once these sessions started Jeremy would also usually insist on at least one round of that rather repetitive ditty – One Man Went to Mow about farming a meadow.
(5) National anthem report: The Brazilian ditty skips along at pleasing pace, and all the players sing along.
(6) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
(7) The conceit – that he needs another rider so he can drive in the HOV lane in LA’s notoriously awful traffic – puts him in the car with pop superstars, singing along to both their own songs and classic pop ditties.
(8) But allow me to leave with one final recollection: at the Isle of Wight Festival, John Sebastian performed the song Darling Be Home Soon, a sentimental little ditty about friendship, self-understanding and hope.
(9) But of course, like most football harangues, this well-worn little ditty is as one-eyed as it gets.
(10) This silenced the home support and had the City fans singing their favourite ditty.
(11) LL Cool J is hosting the ceremony for the third consecutive time – two years after his respectful hosting job in the wake of Whitney Houston’s unexpected death and less than a year after the April 2013 release of his remarkably questionable song Accidental Racist, the country ditty he made with Brad Paisely.
(12) Of course, like most football harangues, this well-worn little ditty is as one-eyed as it gets.
(13) It’s basically a remake of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s relatively harmless early 90s ditty, Baby Got Back , a musical romp celebrating women who carry what Mix-a-lot referred to as “healthy butts”.
(14) So it’s no great surprise that he’s hooked up with UK pop producer MNEK, who, along with creating his own forward-thinking, R&B-infused pop ditties, has produced and written for the cutting edge of UK pop (and the Saturdays).
(15) He might not be better than Zinedine Zidane, as the terrace ditty has it, but he has just upstaged a few of his contemporaries.
(16) Berlusconi, meanwhile, owner of Italy's three biggest private television channels, sought solace in the arms of Francesca Pascale , a former television showgirl famed for co-singing a ditty with the memorable catchphrase: "If you show a bit of thigh, the ratings go up."
(17) He is also known for his musical talents, performing musical theatre numbers at the Proms in 2012 and of course hosting the Oscars in 2013, attracting controversy for such ditties as We Saw Your Boobs.
(18) Or allergic to winsome ditties sung-spoken to primitive ukulele accompaniment.
(19) The Norwegians, singing 13th, scored no marks at all, for a very gentle ditty that sounded like, "By gum, jah no high dog", but apparently meant, "Never in my life will I think of leaving until I join the wind."
(20) He shoulder dances as he sings a little ditty: "The government sucks."
Tune
Definition:
(n.) A sound; a note; a tone.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
(v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
(v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.
(v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
(v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of sigma 54 promoters, known to require cognate binding proteins, could allow the fine-tuning that provides the temporal ordering of flagellar gene transcription.
(2) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(3) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(4) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(5) Four million viewers tune in to the show every week and two million more watch online the next day.
(6) Low calcium causes an increase in optimum frequency, a decrease in current threshold, and an increase in sharpness of tuning in both real axons and axons computed according to the Hodgkin-Huxley formulation; high calcium causes opposite effects.
(7) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(8) Tuning curves of afferent electroreceptive fibers in the anterior lateral line nerve of the weakly electric fish, Sternopygus macrurus, indicate that the tuberous electroreceptors of each individual are well-tuned to its own electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency.
(9) It is more in tune with the subjective experiencing a person has of that which defines and moves him in the world.
(10) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
(11) The accuracy of the tuning-performance yields data for an univariate analysis of variance.
(12) The tuning curves for orientation of cortical cells maintain, to a first approximation, the same shape at the various levels of mean luminance.
(13) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
(14) The doom-laden voiceover claims Miliband could only secure power through a deal with the SNP and that Salmond would be able to “call the tune”.
(15) The use of this selector creates a possibility of reducing the increase in the synchronizing pulse with respect to the channel pulses and eliminating tuning the transmitter's modulator and receiver's selector to each other.
(16) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(17) In general, the results were consistent in showing that there is a systematic change in the variables which define the quality of tuning as hearing loss progressively increases and that these changes are clearly related to outer hair cell losses.
(18) For velocity tuning curves, a few cell pairs showed selective attenuation at high speeds, while others showed it at low speeds.
(19) The national anthems Nothing to say about the Indian anthem, but the New Zealand one sounds like the theme tune for an 1960s ATV variety spectacular.
(20) "I'd tuned in to watch United vs Liverpool in the Premier League," writes Fraser Thomas.