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Look up: tune

  1. Tune
    1) Aligning a musical instrument to a standard pitch, or adjusting musical instruments for playing together. 2) Adjusting the equalisation of a sound system to suit the acoustic characteristics of a specific room and/or style of performance.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  2. tune
    [n] - a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence 2. [v] - adjust for functioning 3. [v] - of musical instruments
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. tune
    a melodie succession of notes Category: General
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. tune
    melody noun a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; `she was humming an air from Beethoven`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. tune
    noun the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency
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  6. tune
    noun the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; `he cannot sing in tune`; `the clarinet was out of tune`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Tune
    • (v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds. • (v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. • (v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony. • (n.) A sound; a note; a tone. • (n.) A rhythmical, melodio...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. tune
    (jargon) (From musical, possibly via automotive, usage) To optimise a program or system for a particular environment, especially by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e.g. by changing '#define' lines in C. One may 'tune for time' (fastest execution), 'tune for space' (least...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/tune

  9. Tune
    [folk music] In folk music, a tune is a short instrumental piece, a melody, often with repeating sections, and usually played a number of times. The most common form for tunes in folk music is AABB, also known as binary form. In some traditions, tunes may be strung together in medleys or "sets." ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tune_(folk_

  10. Tune
    A rhythmic succession of musical tones, a melody for instruments and voices.
    Found on http://www.classicalworks.com/html/gloss



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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