Dictionary Entry

tuned

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/tjuːnd/Used In Literature ↓

To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.

In a Sentence

“to tune a piano or a violin”

Origin

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Common Phrases

circuit tuned. tunedcircuits tunedtuned finelytuned stay

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Poetry examples for “tuned”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Take form and sound, that each inseparate part
May bear its burden in all tuned thoughts that share
The world's great heart -

Jubal first made the wilder notes agree;
And Jubal tuned music's Jubilee;
He call'd the echoes from their sullen cell,

Of this, the most heart-touching theme
That ever tuned a poet’s voice,
I live, as I am bold to dream,

They call that man a statesman whose ear is tuned to
catch the slightest pulsations of a pocket-book, and to

A harp whose strings are golden all
And tuned to music spherical,
Hanging on the green life-tree

The bard who first adorned our native tongue
Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song;
Which Homer might without a blush reherse,

Wine-maiden
Of the jazz-tuned night,
Lips

Ez I strike de strings to try 'em
Ef dey all is tuned er-right.
An' it seems we 're so nigh heaben

The Pheasant in his Crown, the Dove in her Collar;
And those who tuned their Bills among the Trees
That Arm in Arm from Fingers paralyz'd

Then I tuned my harp--took off the lilies we twine round its chords
Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide--those 35