Piece vs Tune - What's the difference?
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A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
A single item belonging to a class of similar items: as, for example, a piece of machinery, a piece of software.
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, title= (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
* 1959 , (Hans Kmoch), Pawn Power in Chess , I:
A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
An artillery gun.
(US, Canada, colloquial) (short for hairpiece); a toupee or wig, usually when worn by a man.
A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 46:
(US, colloquial) A gun.
(US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail
(US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) (short for "piece of crap") a shoddy or worthless object, usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances.
(US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
(baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with got, and never used in the plural.
(dated, sometimes, derogatory) An individual; a person.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
(obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
(US) A pacifier.
(transitive, usually, with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
* Fuller
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out .
(slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)
* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
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 nouns the difference between piece and tune
is that piece is room (in a house, etc) while tune is a melody.As a verb tune is
to modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.piece
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Alternative forms
* peece (obsolete)Noun
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- Pawns, unlike pieces , move only in one direction: forward.
- a sixpenny piece
- My grannie came and gived them all a piece and jam and cups of water then I was to bring them back out to the street and play a game.
- If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him.
- Thy mother was a piece of virtue.
- His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoUsage notes
When used as a baseball term, the term is idiomatic in that the baseball is almost never broken into pieces. It is rare in modern baseball for the cover of a baseball to even partially tear loose. In professional baseball, several new, not previously played baseballs are used in each game. It could be argued that the phrase was never meant (not even metaphorically) to refer to breaking the ball into pieces, and that "get a piece of the ball" means the bat contacts only a small area of the ball - in other words, that the ball is hit off-center. In that case "get" would mean "succeed in hitting", not "obtain".Derived terms
* bits and pieces * piecemeal * piecen * piece of cake * piece of eight * piece of the actionSee also
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* chunk * bitVerb
(piec)- These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.
- His adversaries pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.
- to piece a garment
- (Shakespeare)
- It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece ; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
- It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing .
Derived terms
* piece together * repiece * unpiece 1000 English basic words ----tune
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(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?