Tune
[tjuːn] or [tun]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency.
(noun.) the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; 'he cannot sing in tune'; 'the clarinet was out of tune'.
(noun.) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; 'she was humming an air from Beethoven'.
(verb.) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); 'My piano needs to be tuned'.
(verb.) adjust for (better) functioning; 'tune the engine'.
錄入:曼蒂--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sound; a note; a tone.
(n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
(n.) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
(n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
(v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
(v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
(v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
(v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.
(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.
校對:奥斯瓦德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Air, melody, strain, movement.[2]. Concord, harmony.
v. a. [1]. Harmonize, accord, modulate, attune, put in tune.[2]. Sing.
手打:鲁迪
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Strain, melody, air
弗朗辛校對
解釋/意思:
n. a melodious succession of notes or chords in a particular key: the relation of notes and intervals to each other causing melody: state of giving the proper sound: harmony: a melody or air: frame of mind temper.—v.t. to adjust the tones as of a musical instrument: to play upon celebrate in music: to give a certain character to.—adj. Tū′nable.—n. Tū′nableness.—adv. Tū′nably.—adj. Tune′ful full of tune or harmony: melodious: musical.—adv. Tune′fully.—n. Tune′fulness.—adj. Tune′less without tune or melody: silent.—ns. Tū′ner one who tunes or adjusts the sounds of musical instruments: one who makes music or sings: in organs an adjustable flap for altering the pitch of the tone; Tū′ning the art of bringing musical instruments into tune; Tū′ning-fork a steel two-pronged instrument designed when set in vibration to give a musical sound of a certain pitch; Tū′ning-hamm′er a tuning-wrench with hammer attachment for regulating tension in stringed instruments.—Tune up to begin to sing or play.—Change one's tune Sing another tune to alter one's attitude or one's way of talking; In tune harmonious; Out of tune inharmonious; To the tune of to the amount of.
錄入:莉娜
例句/造句/用法:
- But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The burden fell into a strain or tune as he stumped along the pavements. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He walked to the fireplace and warmed himself, humming the fag end of a tune in a rich convivial bass voice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A woman should be able to sit down and play you or sing you a good old English tune. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He could play 'em a tune on any sort of pot you please, so as it was iron or block tin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She sometimes played tunes upon them with her fingers--minuets and marches I should think--but never moved them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In that case the operator tunes his instrument, or in other words adjusts his apparatus to suit the wave length of the station with which he wishes to communicate. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Insolvency, at all tunes the natural result of a spirited foreign policy, was close at hand. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some good rousing tunes firSt. Rosamond played admirably. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He had heard fragments of tunes and songs in the warm wind, which he knew had no existence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He was experimenting in tunes to suit some words of his own, sometimes trying a ready-made melody, sometimes improvising. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A flash of lightning is liable to give rise to a wave of enormous power which will set half the aerials on the earth vibrating in spite of the differences of pitch to which they are tuned. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I shall go to the piano-forte; I have not touched it since it was tuned. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- They tuned her voice to the note of torment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Methods of tuning the instruments have been adopted which limit the influence of the currents to properly tuned receivers and in this way some degree of secrecy is attained. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Frequent tuning is necessary, because the fine adjustments are easily disturbed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Fasten a stiff bristle to a tuning fork by means of wax, allowing the end of the point to rest lightly upon a piece of smoked glass. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Size and shape determine to a large degree the period of a body; for example, a short, thick tuning fork vibrates more rapidly than a tall slender fork. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There must therefore be accurate tuning of the two instruments. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They're beginning upstairs,' said the stranger--'hear the company-- fiddles tuning--now the harp--there they go. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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