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tuner|ˈtjuːnə(r)|
[f. tune v. + -er1.]
One who or that which tunes.
1. a. One who produces or utters musical sounds; a player or singer. arch.
c1580Lodge Reply Gosson's Sch. Abuse (Hunter. Cl.) 26 A doleful tuner. 1627Drayton Sheph. Sirena 200 Our mournefull Philomell, that rarest Tuner.
b. One who gives a particular (vocal) tone to something. rare—1.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 30 The Pox of such antique lisping affecting phantacies, these new tuners of accent.
2. a. One who tunes a musical instrument; spec. whose occupation is to tune pianos or organs. Also fig.
1801Busby Dict. Mus., Tuner, one whose profession it is to rectify the false sounds of musical instruments. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets etc. 128 Lord Surrey passes as the tuner of our English. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lix. Introd. III. 74 Affliction is the tuner of the harps of sanctified songsters. 1883Godden in Knowledge 25 May 315/2 This [interval] is so equally dispersed by good tuners as to be almost imperceptible.
b. A workman employed to ‘tune’ a loom: see tune v. 1 d.
1885Scotsman 26 Aug. 3/6 Tweed Trade—Wanted..An assistant power-loom tuner. 1888Engineering 20 Jan. 69 Mules and looms..in the charge of men known as ‘tuners’.
c. An adjustable flap or opening in a flue-pipe of an organ, by means of which it is tuned (cf. tuning-hole s.v. tuning 4).
1891in Cent. Dict.
3. Any device for varying the frequency to which a radio or television is tuned; spec. a separate unit for detecting and preamplifying the programme signal and supplying it to an audio amplifier. Also tuner unit.
1909J. Erskine-Murray Handbk. Wireless Telegr. (ed. 2) 148 Another instrument..has been designed quite recently (1908). It is called the tuner and contains the inductances, capacities, and coupling arrangements required in a tuned receiving station. 1925W. Greenwood Text-bk. Wireless Telegr. & Telephony vi. 122 (heading) The tuner portion of a receiving circuit. Ibid. 124 The various tuning inductances and condensers are often assembled in a separate box called the ‘tuner’. 1953E. T. Canby Home Music Syst. iii. 37 There are separate units that combine numerous functions: AM-FM radio tuners;..separate AM tuners and FM tuners; [etc.]. 1959Listener 26 Mar. 541/2 There is no substitute for a high-quality FM tuner unit. 1967Ibid. 30 Mar. 424/1 Some parts of the [television] receiver, such as..the tuner unit, and the box, will cost no more than in a black-and-white receiver. 1970Which? Apr. 115/1 Most of the tuners had a device to show when you were exactly tuned to a station. 1976K. Thackeray Crownbird vi. 127 Priest rotated the tuner on his receiver until he was listening to the police frequency.
4. Special Comb.: tuner-amplifier, a combined radio tuner and amplifier; cf. receiver1 7 c; also abbrev. tuner-amp.
1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers i. 21 The tuner-amplifier is a new breed of hi-fi equipment. 1975Hi-Fi Answers Feb. 49/1 Your choice of possible tuner-amps is limited by your requirement for an MW section. 1979J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor xi. 37 A big reel-to-reel tape machine..was linked to a tuner/amplifier set to a pre-selected clear channel. |