tuning.html - n.
the process or a system of putting a musical instrument in tune.

tuning-fork a two-pronged steel fork that gives a particular note when struck, used in tuning. tuning-peg (or pin etc.) a peg or pin etc. attached to the strings of a stringed instrument and turned to alter their tension in tuning.

tuning.html - n.
the process or a system of putting a musical instrument in tune.

tuning-fork a two-pronged steel fork that gives a particular note when struck, used in tuning. tuning-peg (or pin etc.) a peg or pin etc. attached to the strings of a stringed instrument and turned to alter their tension in tuning.

tuning.html - n.
1 a a close-fitting short coat of police or military etc. uniform. b a loose, often sleeveless garment usu. reaching to about the knees, as worn in ancient Greece and Rome. c any of various loose, pleated dresses gathered at the waist with a belt or cord. d a tunicle.
2 Zool. the rubbery outer coat of an ascidian etc.
3 Bot. a any of the concentric layers of a bulb. b the tough covering of a part of this.
4 Anat. a membrane enclosing or lining an organ. [F tunique or L tunica]

tuning.html - n.
(pl. tunicae) Bot. & Anat. = TUNIC 3, 4. [L]

tuning.html - n. & adj.
--n.

any marine animal of the subphylum Urochordata having a rubbery or hard outer coat, including sea squirts.

--adj.

1 Zool. of or relating to this subphylum.
2 a Zool. enclosed in a tunic. b Bot. having concentric layers. [L tunicatus past part. of tunicare clothe with a tunic (as TUNICA)]

tuning.html - n.
a short vestment worn by a bishop or subdeacon at the Eucharist etc. [ME f. OF tunicle or L tunicula dimin. of TUNICA]