Kilo Lingo

/tjuːn/

Line drawing of tune
Coloured illustration of tune
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Translation

A group of musical notes in a pleasing order that you can sing, hum, or play.

Word origin

A changed form of tone, from Greek tonos, the pitch of a sound, which came into English through Latin.

Origin
Greek
Root
tonos
English cognates
tone

Examples

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A tune is the line of notes you can sing along to.

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A song has words; a tune is just the music.

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"Out of tune" means the notes sound wrong; "in tune" means they sound right.

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