[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tune \tune\ t=un, n. a variant of tone.
   1. a sound; a note; a tone. "the tune of your voices."
      --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. mus.
      a a rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones
          for one voice or instrument, or for any number of
          voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such
          series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as,
          a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm
          tune. see air.
      b the state of giving the proper sound or sounds; just
          intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice
          or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an
          instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with
          others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
          1913 webster

                like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster

   3. order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or
      humor; right mood.
      1913 webster

            a child will learn three times as much when he is in
            tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to
            his task.                           --locke.
      1913 webster
see also:
air 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tune \tune\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tuned t=und; p. pr.  vb.
   n. tuning.
   1. to put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds;
      to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone
      of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. " tune your harps."
      --dryden.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

   2. to give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to
      make harmonious.
      1913 webster

            for now to sorrow must i tune my song. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. to sing with melody or harmony.
      1913 webster

            fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
            melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. to put into a proper state or disposition. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
tuned tuning 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tune \tune\ t=un, v. i.
   1. to form one sound to another; to form accordant musical
      sounds.
      1913 webster

            whilst tuning to the water's fall,
            the small birds sang to her.          --drayton.
      1913 webster

   2. to utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing
      without pronouncing words; to hum. r.
      1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tune
     n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she
          was humming an air from beethoven" syn: melody, air,
           strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
     2: the property of producing accurately a note of a given
        pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of
        tune"
     3: the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a
        required frequency
     v 1: adjust for better functioning; "tune the engine" syn: tune
          up
     2: of musical instruments; "my piano needs to be tuned" syn: tune
        up ant: untune
see also:
melody air strain melodic line line melodic phrase 
tune up tune up untune 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

171 moby thesaurus words for "tune":
   french pitch, accommodate, accord, accordance, adapt, adjust,
   adjust to, agreement, air, align, aria, assimilate, assonate,
   atone, attend to, attune, attunement, be aware of, be blind to,
   be harmonious, be in tune, blend, calibrate, canto, cantus,
   capacitate, carol, chant, chart, chime, chiming, chord, chorus,
   classical pitch, codify, composition, concentus, concert, concord,
   concordance, condition, conform, conformity, consonance,
   consonancy, consort, coordinate, correspondence, cut to, depth,
   descant, dial, diapason, disregard, dulcetness, enable, equalize,
   equip, euphony, extent, fit, fix, furnish, gear to, harmonics,
   harmonize, harmony, heavy harmony, height, high pitch, homologate,
   homologize, homophony, ignore, integrate, key, key to, lay, line,
   listen to, low pitch, magnitude, make plumb, make uniform, matter,
   measure, mellifluence, mellifluousness, melodia, melodic line,
   melodiousness, melodize, melody, methodize, monochord, monody,
   motif, musical quality, musical sound, musicality, musicalize,
   neighborhood, new philharmonic pitch, normalize, note, number,
   organize, pay attention to, philharmonic pitch,
   philosophical pitch, piece, pitch, plan, proportion, put in trim,
   put in tune, qualify, range, rationalize, reconcile, rectify,
   refrain, register, regularize, regulate, right, routinize, set,
   set right, settle, similarize, solo, solo part, song, soprano part,
   sound in tune, sound together, standard pitch, standardize, strain,
   string, suit, sweetness, symphonize, symphony, sync, synchronism,
   synchronization, synchronize, systematize, tailor, theme,
   three-part harmony, tonality, tone, tone down, tone up, treble,
   trim to, true, true up, tune out, tune up, tunefulness, understand,
   unison, unisonance, vicinity, vocalize, voice, warble

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

tune vt. from automotive or musical usage to optimize a program or
   system for a particular environment, esp. by adjusting numerical
   parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e.g., by changing `define'
   lines in c. one may `tune for time' fastest execution, `tune for
   space' least memory use, or `tune for configuration' most efficient
   use of hardware. see bum, hot spot, hand-hacking.


see also:
hook bum hot spot hand-hacking 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

tune
     
         from musical, possibly via automotive, usage to
        optimise a program or system for a particular environment,
        especially by adjusting numerical parameters designed as
        hooks for tuning, e.g. by changing "define" lines in c.
        one may "tune for time" fastest execution, "tune for space"
        least memory use, or "tune for configuration" most
        efficient use of hardware.
     
        see bum, hot spot, hand-hacking.
     
        jargon file
     
        1999-06-05
     
     
see also:
optimise hooks bum hot spot hand-hacking jargon file 

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