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Tune up   /tun əp/   Listen
Tune up

verb
1.
Adjust for (better) functioning.  Synonym: tune.
2.
Adjust the pitches of (musical instruments).  Synonym: tune.






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"Tune up" Quotes from Famous Books



... either, she touched her brother's arm. "Tune up, Michel," she said low and hurriedly. "I have thought of ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... applause greeted the performance of this ribald parody. There were calls for more such psalmody. "Give us another verse, Sergeant." "Tune up again, Dick." "Goon, goon." Lord Dunseveric, who had remained outside, dismounted and stalked through the door. He had caught the tune, though not the words of the sergeant's song. He guessed at some ribald irreverence within. His face ...
— The Northern Iron - 1907 • George A. Birmingham

... at night, when I come to a cozy old nest, "Mine host, now a bottle—and make it your best! And you, merry fiddler, tune up for a song, A song of my ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... was distorted. He seemed about to tune up and whimper. "An' ef I war you-uns, Andy Byers, I'd find su'thin' better ter do'n ter bait an' badger a critter the size o' Rufe!" exclaimed ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)

... my own light, nor as a Fool. So should myself stand between the sun and my shadow; whereas I am not myself—these seven years have I been but the shadow of a Fool. Yet one must tune up for the Duke. ...
— The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" • Q



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