Tuned

Definition: Tuned

Tuned

Adjective

1. (music) brought to correct pitch; "his tuned violin"; "the attuned instruments".

2. So adjusted as to be appropriate or brought into harmony; "an industry not attuned to the demands of the market"; "a remark keyed to the situation"; "charges finely tuned to the amount a student can afford".

3. (music) tuned in equal temperament; or so tuned as to allow modulation into other keys.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tuned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Tuned

Crosswords: Tuned

You people, uh, who just tuned in at home, this is the Academy Awards. (The 56th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

Hi, for those of you who just tuned in, everyone here is a crazy person. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Stay tuned. (In & Out; writing credit: Paul Rudnick)

Broadcasting beautiful views 24 hours a day: you're tuned to the Scenery Channel. (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days (LAWYERS IN LOVE; performing artist: Jackson Browne)

The jet pilots tuned to (Rock the Casbah; performing artist: The Clash)

Stay Tuned (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chevy Tpi Fuel Injection Swapper's Guide: How to Interchange & Modify Tuned Port Injection Systems (S-A Design) (reference)

• Stay Tuned for Danger (reference)

• Stay Tuned Teacher's Book for 6ème (reference)

• The Owner's Guide to the Body: How to Have a Perfectly Tuned Body and Mind (reference)

• Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stay Tuned (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Nancy Drew Stay Tuned for Danger Deluxe (reference)

• Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Inspectors of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tuned in on 1949 television programs to listen for false or misleading statements in advertising. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Burma

In December 1999, U Than Chaun, the owner of a coffee shop in Shwe Coo township of Kachin State, was arrested and sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment with hard labor for having the radio in his coffee shop tuned to Voice of America. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tuned": tuned aerial ♦ tuned anode ♦ tuned cavity. Additional references.

Beginning with "tuned": tuned-arguments, tuned-arm, tuned-down, tuned-for-economy, tuned-in.

Ending with "tuned": finely-tuned, fine-tuned.

Chinese 

定调 (tuning). (various references)

Danish

indstillet, afstemt. (various references)

Dutch

afgestemd. (various references)

Finnish

viritetty. (various references)

French

accordé. (various references)

German

abgestimmt (attuned, coordinated, syntonic, voted), stimmte (attuned, tunes), gestimmt (voted). (various references)

Greek 

συντονισμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מכוון (aimed, corresponding, designed, directed, in alignment, in tune, intentional, orientated). (various references)

Italian

sintonizzato, in sintonia, accordato (accorded, accords). (various references)

Korean 

조� �하�" (Adjusted). (various references)

Pig Latin

unedtay

Portuguese

filtro de banda de passagem muito selectiva (sharply tuned bandpass filter), cavidade ressonante (cavity, cavity resonator, microwave resource cavity, optical cavity, resonant cavity, resonant chamber, resonant element, rhumbatron, tuned cavity, waveguide resonator), cavidade (antrum, belly, bowl, bunt, cave, cavity, chuck-hole, delve, dent, hole, hollow, scoop, vesicle). (various references)

Russian 

настраивать настроенный. (various references)

Spanish

sintonizado. (various references)

Swedish

stämd. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "tuned": attuned, fortuned, importuned, mistuned, retuned, unattuned, untuned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tuned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: juned, tande, taned, tanid, tened, toaned, tonned, trunked, tuced, tuen, Tuenda, tund, tunde, tunder, tundi, tunet, tuney, tunged, tuni, tunix, tuno, tunve, Tunze, tured, tused, tuxed, tyned, uneed, uted, utne. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dent, duet, dune, dunt, nude, tend, tune, unde.

-2 letters: den, due, dun, end, net, nut, ted, ten, tun.

-3 letters: de, ed, en, et, ne, nu, un, ut.

+1 letter: bunted, dunite, dunted, hunted, lunted, nudest, nutted, punted, tunned, turned, united, untied.

+2 letters: attuned, audient, blunted, counted, daunted, daunter, defunct, demount, denture, detinue, diluent, dunites, dunnest, dunnite, duotone, dustmen, duvetyn, grunted, haunted, intrude, jaunted, knouted, lunated, minuted, mounted, mutined, natured, nutated, outdone, prudent, quanted, retuned, rundlet, shunted, snouted, student, stunned, stunted, subtend, taunted, tenured, thunder, thunked, tongued, trudgen, trundle, trunked, turdine, unacted, unbated, undated, undrest, unmated, unnoted, unrated, unsated, untamed, untaxed, untired, untread, untried, untuned, uptrend, vaunted.