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Rune vs Tune - What's the difference?

rune | tune |

As nouns the difference between rune and tune

is that rune is air-hole (of a chimney) while tune is a melody.

As a verb tune is

to modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.

rune

English

(runes)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
  • A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  • Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, page 15:
    • the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
  • (obsolete) A roun.

    • Derived terms

    * runecraft * runelore * runester * runology, runologist

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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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