(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.
Tyne
Definition:
(v. t.) To lose.
(v. i.) To become lost; to perish.
(n.) A prong or point of an antler.
(n.) Anxiety; tine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(2) Heights, weights and head circumferences were obtained from two groups of primary school children: 1016 children from throughout Oxfordshire, a rural county with few areas of deprivation, and 219 children from an economically deprived part of the city of Newcastle on Tyne.
(3) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(4) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
(5) While Osborne’s pitchbook was heavy on projects in the major northern cities of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne, Hammond will attempt to secure investment for other urban areas including Sunderland, Stockport and Ellesmere Port.
(6) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
(7) One objective of the Kroc Study was to develop methods that would allow valid amalgamation of results from laboratories at the six clinical centers and a central biochemical laboratory at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
(8) The England pilot – which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region – will be contested by ITN's consortium, which is backed by Melvyn Bragg , which includes Johnston Press, Newsquest, Metro Radio and ITV Tyne Tees and Borders news staff.
(9) A survey of the nutrition labelling of 880 varieties of foods on sale in three stores in Newcastle upon Tyne was undertaken in May-July 1989.
(10) UTV, the Northern Ireland ITV franchise holder, is to bid to run a replacement ITV news pilot in the Border and Tyne Tees region, having already thrown its hat into the ring for Wales .
(11) (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear) Miss Dianne Cynthia Gibbons.
(12) Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear) 5.10pm BST Team news ... Liverpool line up as they did against Stoke, while Aston Villa make two changes from the eleven who started against Chelsea.
(13) Maternity units and community in Newcastle upon Tyne.
(14) virus in Newcastle upon Tyne 13 children developed R.S.
(15) The FMB will pilot an adult training scheme with Gateshead college, near Newcastle upon Tyne, starting in March, where 15-20 former military and unemployed people will be retrained using funds from the Local Enterprise Partnership and the Skills Funding Agency.
(16) Patients were identified from the records of the Regional Neurological Centre and Muscular Dystrophy Group laboratories, Newcastle upon Tyne, and by writing to local doctors.
(17) Trinity Mirror has also launched a bid for the English news pilot in the Tyne Tees and Border ITV regions, with Ten Alps and the Press Association.
(18) A silence descended on Greenock and Belfast, the Mersey, the Wear, the Tees and the Tyne, and very few people beyond those localities made a fuss.
(19) The deal adds Meridian and Anglia to Granada's portfolio, joining Yorkshire, Tyne-Tees and LWT.
(20) The antibody with the greatest sensitivity in radioimmunoassay was one raised against human CRF, Ab-code R1 (provided by Dr E. Hillhouse, University of Newcastle upon Tyne).