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Tune is a related term of carol.


As a noun tune

is a melody.

As a verb tune

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

As a proper noun carol is

, popular in the middle of the 20th century or carol can be .

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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    Anagrams

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    carol

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.
  • A song of joy.
  • * Dryden
    • the costly feast, the carol , and the dance
  • * 1908 ,
    • The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout.
  • A religious song or ballad of joy.
    • They sang a Christmas carol .
  • * Keble
    • In the darkness sing your carol of high praise.
  • * Longfellow
    • I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carol play.

    Verb

  • To sing in a joyful manner.
  • * Spenser
    • carol of love's high praise
  • * Beattie
    • The gray linnets carol from the hill.
  • To sing carols, especially Christmas carols in a group.
  • To praise or celebrate in song.
  • * Milton
    • The shepherds at their festivals / Carol her goodness.
  • To sing (a song) cheerfully.
  • * Prior
    • Hovering swans carol sounds harmonious.

    Anagrams

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