Attune
[ə'tjuːn] or [ə'tʊn;ə'tjʊn]
Definition
(v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
(v. t.) To arrange fitly; to make accordant.
Typed by Freddie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Set to a tune, make musical.[2]. Tune, accord, harmonize, modulate, put in tune.
Typed by Connie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Temper, attemper, harmonize, adjust, accommodate
ANT:Unstring, disharmonize, disarrange, discompose, dislocate, disturb, disconcert
Editor: Shanna
Definition
v.t. to put in tune: to make one sound accord with another: to arrange fitly: to make musical.—n. Attune′ment.
Typed by Arthur
Examples
- A slight and variable colour tinged her cheeks, and her motions seemed attuned by some hidden harmony of surpassing sweetness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Let her voice speak the music that you once loved best, attuned as sweetly to your ear as to mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Born with the ear attuned to music and the eye to observe beauty, the hand of Art was to trace and make permanent the fleeting forms which melody and the eye impressed upon the soul of man. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I arose again, laughing at my forgetfulness, and soon had mastered once more the art of attuning my earthly sinews to these changed conditions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Editor: Nell