Word Meanings - TUNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A sound; a note; a tone. "The tune of your voices." Shak. 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

Additional info about word: TUNE

1. A sound; a note; a tone. "The tune of your voices." Shak. 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. 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. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. Shak. 3. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood. A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to . Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TUNE)

• Melody
• Music
• song
• tune
• air
• minstrelsy

Related words: (words related to TUNE)

• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• MUSICAL
  Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons. Musical, or Music,
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• MUSICALNESS
  The quality of being musical.
• MELODY
  A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and
• MUSICIAN
  One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
• MUSIC
  A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation. Magic music, a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• IMMUSICAL
  Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.