Synonyms:
tune, melody, air, strain, melodic_line, line, melodic_phrase
Meaning: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
tune, tune_up
Meaning: adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine"
Usage examples
Like a great tune to which the planets roll
He stood it--to the tune of ten years' penal servitude.
Yes, he could play to any man's singing--any tune he liked to call.
Right about face, neighbors, and home we go, to the tune of Hail Columby."
May--sings all the day; June--changes his tune; July--prepares to fly; August--go he must.
Keith joined in, and keeping step to the tune, like two soldiers, they marched on into the house.
"The piano is in tune," said Clara, passing them, "but we may have to ask some one to move it for us."
He knew but one tune and sang it, as he knew but one code and lived it, and but one girl and loved her.
Father and son were really about to drown when they heard a voice like a guitar out of tune call from the sea:
But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also?