tun.html - See: CALL THE TUNE, CHANGE ONE'S TUNE, IN TUNE, SING A DIFFERENT TUNE or WHISTLE A DIFFERENT TUNE also SING A NEW TUNE, TO THE TUNE OF.

tun.html - To adjust a radio or television set to pick up a certain station. * /Bob tuned in his portable radio to a record show./ * /Tom tuned in to Channel 11 to hear the news./

tun.html - {v. phr.} To not listen to something. * /"How can you work in such a noisy environment?" Jane asked Sue. "Well, I simply tune it out," she answered./

tun.html - {v.} 1a. To adjust (a musical instrument) to make the right sound. * /Before he began to play, Harry tuned up his banjo./ 1b. To adjust a musical instrument or a group of musical instruments to the right sound. * /The orchestra came in and began to tune up for the concert./ 2. To adjust many parts of (car engine) which must work together so that it will run properly. * /He took his car to the garage to have the engine tuned up./

tun.html - {n.} 1. The adjusting or fixing of something (as a motor) to make it work safely and well. * /Father says the car needs a tune-up before winter begins./ 2. Exercise or practicing for the purpose of getting ready; a trial before something. * /The team went to the practice field for their last tune-up before the game tomorrow./ Syn.: WARM UP.

tun.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a large beer or wine cask.
2 a brewer's fermenting-vat.
3 a measure of capacity, equal to 252 wine gallons.

--v.

tr. (tunned, tunning) store (wine etc.) in a tun. [OE tunne f. med.L tunna, prob. of Gaulish orig.]