Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that tunes.
- noun A device for tuning, especially an electronic circuit or device used to select signals at a specific frequency for amplification and conversion to video, sound, or both.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tunes or puts in tune; also. one who makes music or sings.
- noun Specifically One whose occupation it is to put musical instruments in proper tune and repair.
- noun In organ-building, an adjustable flap or opening near the top of a flue-pipe, whereby the effective length of the air-column may be altered, so as to alter the pitch of the tone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
tunes apiano . - noun A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person
tune amusical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. - noun On a
musical instrument , a peg or mechanical device that changes thetension , and hencepitch , of a string. - noun The component of an audio system that receives
radio broadcasts . - noun entertainment industry A
musical .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
- noun someone who tunes pianos
Etymologies
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Examples
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TV tuner is different from wifi card that gives access to internet.
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While the coax from the antenna to the tuner is short enough that increased attenuation with higher VSWR is not likely to be a problem, as has been pointed (and debated) in previous articles, the mismatch could cause a reflection that stresses the equalizer in the DTV tuner.
TV Technology 2009
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Although given the modern subcompact "tuner" - style cars favored by teens, and given their modern parents, who stay at work until six or eight in the evening, it's probably been a long time since anything other than the stashing of beer cans and bongs has been done in the back seats of cars.
Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006
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Although given the modern subcompact "tuner" - style cars favored by teens, and given their modern parents, who stay at work until six or eight in the evening, it's probably been a long time since anything other than the stashing of beer cans and bongs has been done in the back seats of cars.
Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006
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Although given the modern subcompact "tuner" - style cars favored by teens, and given their modern parents, who stay at work until six or eight in the evening, it's probably been a long time since anything other than the stashing of beer cans and bongs has been done in the back seats of cars.
Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006
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Writing a page tuner is a craft which can be learnt; though, it doesn’t hurt to have some literary alchemy at your fingertips.
Heart Wrenching Moments – bringing life into your story. « Write Anything 2010
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My current thinking is to buy a hard disk-based recorder with built-in tuner, or even take up my cable operator’s deal of a low-rental recorder offered with their digital service.
Four in five already prepared for terrestrial analogue switch-off 2007
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And perhaps most worrisome for the industry is the recent disappearance of that iconic American character: the new-car enthusiast, otherwise known as the tuner, motor head, speed freak, buff, nut and zealot.
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Plugging the TV into the tuner, which is the size of a laptop power pack, and the tuner into his laptop, Laurie is able to use his laptop to pick up content through hotel TVs that the backend system is broadcasting but not currently displaying on the TV.
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Miss Blake, who never listened to what any one said, took it for granted that the little girl was the tuner for whom M. le Proprietaire had promised to send; and having bestowed on her a condescending nod, passed out into the garden, where she told some of the visitors that the piano had been tuned at last, and that the tuner was a young woman of rather eccentric appearance.
Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) William Black 1869
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