Tune vs. Tube

Tunenoun

A melody.

Tunenoun

A song, or short musical composition.

Tunenoun

(informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.

Tunenoun

The state or condition of being correctly tuned.

Tunenoun

(obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.

Tunenoun

(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.

Tunenoun

(obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.

Tuneinterjection

Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.

Tuneverb

To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.

Tuneverb

To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.

Tuneverb

To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.

Tuneverb

(e.g. of senses or faculties) To adapt to or direct towards a particular target.

Tuneverb

To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.

Tuneverb

To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

Tuneverb

(transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.

Tuneverb

(obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.

Tuneverb

To cheek; to be impudent towards.

Tunenoun

A sound; a note; a tone.

Tunenoun

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.

Tunenoun

Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

Tuneverb

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.

Tuneverb

To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

Tuneverb

To sing with melody or harmony.

Tuneverb

To put into a proper state or disposition.

Tuneverb

To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

Tuneverb

To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

Tunenoun

a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

Tunenoun

the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch;

Tunenoun

the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency

Tuneverb

adjust for (better) functioning;

Tuneverb

of musical instruments;

Tubenoun

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

Tubenoun

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

Tubenoun

The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

Tubenoun

A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).topic=Australian English

Tubenoun

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

Tubenoun

A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.

Tubenoun

(Scotland) Idiot.

Tubeverb

To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

Tubeverb

To ride an inner tube.

Tubeverb

To intubate.

Tubenoun

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

Tubenoun

A telescope.

Tubenoun

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

Tubenoun

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

Tubenoun

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

Tubenoun

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

Tubenoun

A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

Tubenoun

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.

Tubeverb

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Tubenoun

conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

Tubenoun

electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

Tubenoun

a hollow cylindrical shape

Tubenoun

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

Tubenoun

electric underground railway

Tubeverb

provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Tubeverb

convey in a tube;

Tubeverb

ride or float on an inflated tube;

Tubeverb

place or enclose in a tube