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tuned, ppl. a.
(tjuːnd, poet. ˈtjuːnɪd)
[f. tune v. (and n.) + -ed.]
1. Put in tune, sounded musically, etc. (see the verb): usually with qualifying word (in which case sometimes from the n. = having a specified ‘tune’ or tone); also with adv.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue 26 b, Straunge doctrine and new tuned opinions. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lvii. vi, To spread thy praise With tuned laies. 1598Mucedorus Induct. 6 Sound foorth Bellonas siluer tuned strings. 1662Playford Skill Mus. (1674) 58 The Dorick Mood consisted of sober slow Tun'd Notes. 1746–7Hervey Medit., Tombs (1767) I. 37 Their Inclinations were nicely-tuned Unisons, and all their conversation was Harmony. 1908Daily Report 31 Aug. 9/1 The professional rider on a specially tuned-up machine [motor].
2. a. Electronics. Adjusted so as to resonate at a particular frequency; forming part of a circuit so adjusted. Also transf.
1899J. J. Fahie Hist. Wireless Telegr. 182 The circuits are said to be in resonance, or to be electrically tuned. 1928, etc. [see Litz]. 1936Discovery June 197/2 This is of importance in short-wave technique, seeing that condensation is constantly varying the capacity of the tuned circuit. 1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors xiv. 328 Two types of high-frequency amplifiers are in general use, tuned amplifiers and untuned wide-band or video amplifiers. 1971Nature 3 Dec. 256/1 In Diptera, the antennae are the principal organs of hearing and are tuned and directional. 1980K. J. Bohlman Colour & Mono Television I. viii. 97 At Band 4 and 5 frequencies, conventional L, C tuning circuits are not practical... Fortunately..it is possible to use tuned transmission lines.
b. Having one's radio or television tuned (in) to a particular station; esp. in imp. phr. stay tuned, go on listening to this station.
1956Amer. Speech XXXI. 258 Stay tuned for Roy Neal and his program. 1970Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June 1/1, 13 million American homes are tuned in via ABC-TV to a previously taped episode of Mr Welk's 15-year-old show. 1972Guardian 8 Jan. 8/3 Our own Keith Dewhurst..had stayed tuned for this unique blend. 1977‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon viii. 152 She fiddled with volume control in order to get him satisfactorily tuned in.
c. tuned in (fig.): (a) in rapport with, in harmony with; const. to, on; (b) (slang) = switched on s.v. switched a. and ppl. a. 3 b.
1958Oxf. Mag. 1 May 398/1 It took us some time to get tuned in... Everyone was saying how much better the second half was than the first... Had we just begun to get the wave-length?.. A minor triumph in the difficult art of getting acquainted. 1963N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) i. 29, I miss..the way people think. All the same, it's fun trying to get tuned-in. 1968P. Brook Empty Space iii. 85 It is perhaps for this reason that..the pop tradition in England has such wide appeal: non-political, unaligned, it is none the less tuned in on a fragmented world in which bombs, drugs, God, parents, sex, and private anxieties, are inseparable. 1972D. Haston In High Places xii. 143 I'd walk alone, slowly shaking off the delights of civilization and getting completely tuned in once again to a mountain environment. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 14 Aug. 12/2 This is a regional museum tuned in to the story of man's relationship to the wilderness. 1977Hudson Rev. Spring 69, I thought he'd be some kind of creep, instead I meet this really sweet cat... He's really tuned in. |