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Adapt vs Tune - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between adapt and tune

is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while tune is to modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.

As an adjective adapt

is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

As a noun tune is

a melody.

adapt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
  • To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Related terms

    * adaptational * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adaptability * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptional * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptorial

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    References

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    tune

    English

    (wikipedia tune)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A melody.
  • A song, or short musical composition.
  • (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
    • Your engine needs a good tune .
  • The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
    • Your engine is now in tune .
    This piano is not in tune .
  • (UK, slang) A very good song.
    • You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune !
  • (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the tune of your voices
  • (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
  • * John Locke
    • A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune , as when he is dragged unwillingly to [his task].

    Derived terms

    * change one's tune * in tune * out of tune * to the tune of * carry a tune

    Related terms

    * tone

    Verb

    (tun)
  • To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
    • to tune a piano or a violin
  • * Dryden
    • Tune your harps.
  • To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions optimally.
  • To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
  • * Milton
    • For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
  • To sing with melody or harmony.
  • * Milton
    • Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
  • (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
    • Are you tuning me?

    Derived terms

    * fine-tune * stay tuned * tune in * * tuner * tune out * tune up

    Related terms

    * attune

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