June vs Tune - What's the difference?
june | tune |
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun' or '
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for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
* 2002 (Kate Atkinson), Not the End of the World , Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 29:
*:Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June', because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? '''June''' was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, ' June' .)
A melody.
A song, or short musical composition.
(informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
(UK, slang) A very good song.
(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
* John Locke
To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
* Dryden
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.
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
* Milton
To sing with melody or harmony.
* Milton
(South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
As an adverb june
is in a young manner, youthfully.As a noun tune is
a melody.As a verb tune is
to modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.june
English
Proper noun
(Junes)Derived terms
* bird of June * June-apple * Juneberry * June beetle * June Bootids * June bug * June cold * June Days, June Days Uprising * June drop * June gloom * June grass * June List * June Movement * June solstice * June sucker * Juneteenth * June War * June Week * Junie * mid-JuneSee also
* ----tune
English
(wikipedia tune)Noun
(en noun)- Your engine needs a good tune .
- Your engine is now in tune .
- This piano is not in tune .
- You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune !
- the tune of your voices
- 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 tuneVerb
(tun)- to tune a piano or a violin
- Tune your harps.
- (Shakespeare)
- For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
- Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
- Are you tuning me?
