Tune in spanish
pronunciation: meloʊdiɑ part of speech: noun
tune1 = melodía, cantinela.
Example: He wrote an article entitled 'Information needs: old song, new tune'.more:
» audio tune = tono auditivo.
Example: A modem is an electronic device which converts or modulates data coming from a computer into audio tunes which can be carried over normal phone lines and demodulates incoming tones from the phone line into data that can be used by the computer.» be in tune = estar afinado.
Example: Because this string is in tune, we can assume that this note, A, on the fifth fret, is also in tune.» be in tune with = estar en consonancia con, estar de acuerdo con, estar en armonía con, estar en sintonía con.
Example: There was a hard core of dedicated, British-trained librarians who practised their profession in tune with the social, economic and political situation of their time.» call + the tune = mandar, decidir, ser el mandamás, ser el jefe, tener la última palabra, tener el poder, tomar las decisiones, llevar la voz cantante, dirigir el cotarro, cortar el bacalo, partir el bacalo, tener la sartén por el mango, llevar la batuta, partir la pana.
Example: As long as we allow other people to pay the piper, they will continue calling the tune in Africa.» change + Posesivo + tune = cambiar de opinión, cambiar de parecer, cambiar de cantinela.
Example: Then a few weeks ago, we noted that he had shockingly changed his tune, right about the time that the market was hitting new highs.» go out of + tune = desafinarse, destemplarse.
Example: Pianos go out of tune primarily because of seasonal changes in humidity that cause the soundboard to swell and shrink, thus raising and lowering the tension on the strings.» he who pays the piper calls the tune = quien paga manda, el que paga manda.
Example: 'He who pays the piper calls the tune,' said Muiru, a presidential aspirant when asked why his rating was so low on the polls = "Quién paga manda," dijo Muiru, un candidato a la presidencia cuando le preguntaron por qué obtuvo tan pocos votos en los sondeos.» march to + a different drum/drummer/beat/tune = marchar a + Posesivo + (propio) ritmo, bailar a + Propio + propio son, avanzar a + Posesivo + (propio) ritmo, ir a + Posesivo + (propia) bola, ir por libre, actuar por libre, andar por libre. [Las diferentes combinaciones son: march to + a different drum o march to + a different drummer o march to + a different beat o march to + a different tune
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» march to + the beat of a different drummer/tune = marchar a + Posesivo + (propio) ritmo, bailar a + Propio + propio son, avanzar a + Posesivo + (propio) ritmo, ir a + Posesivo + (propia) bola, ir por libre, actuar por libre, andar por libre. [Las diferentes combinaciones son: march to + the beat of a different drummer o march to + the beat of a different tune
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» march to + the same tune/beat/drum(mer) = caminar a la par, avanzar a la par, caminar a la vez, avanzar a la vez, caminar en paralelo, avanzar en paralelo, caminar al unísono, avanzar al unísono.
Example: Such people don't neatly fall in line or easily march to the same tune.» out of tune = desafinado, destemplado, desacorde, discorde, disonante, desentonado.
Example: Soon they started receiving complaints that he left the pianos more out of tune than he found them.» out of tune with = en desarmonía con, desentonar con, no ajustarse a, desafinar con.
Example: Quite often she feels out of tune with reality, the media, society, and she's comfortable with that.» out of tune with the times = fuera de onda con los tiempos modernos.
Example: Political parties who want lower tax no longer seem out of tune with the times.» play out of + tune = desafinar.
Example: Flute players spend half their time tuning their instrument and the other half playing out of tune.» sing + a different tune = cambiar de opinión, cambiar de parecer, cambiar de cantinela.
Example: Politicians who scoffed at the possibility of a Trump presidency and withheld their support are now singing a different tune.» sing in + tune = cantar sin desentonar.
Example: There are many people who love music and want to sing, but they don't know how to sing in tune.» sing out of + tune = desafinar, desentonar.
Example: A jobless man was shot dead by a security guard for singing out of tune in a karaoke bar, police said Thursday.» to the tune of + Cantidad = nada más y nada menos que de/por + Cantidad, por la friolera de + Cantidad.
Example: The cheapness however is not primarily because the book is a paperback, it is because the book has been printed to the tune of perhaps hundreds of thousands of copies.» tunebook = libro de melodías.
Example: The aim of the tunebooks was to improve the congregational singing of musically-illiterate churchgoers.» tune-up = puesta a punto, afinado.
Example: The library also provides instructional materials on tune-ups for auto mechanics.tune2 = sintonizar.
Example: A good idea is to read aloud for a part of each session because this is a corporate activity that will settle them down and tune their imaginations to the right frequency.more:
» fine tune [fine-tune] = ajustar, poner a punto, afinar, modificar, precisar.
Example: These statistics have been used to fine tune the system and improve response time = Se han usado estos resultados estadísticos para ajustar el funcionamiento del sistema y mejorar el tiempo de respuesta.» tune in = sintonizar.
Example: The article 'E-mail: turn on, tune in, drop a line...' gives a brief outline of the commands used on the electronic mail system Data-Mail.» tune out = cambiar de canal de televisión, cambiar de canal de radio, cambiar de sintonía, cambiar de estación de televisión, cambiar de estación de radio.
Example: Most local television stations will post the pollen indexes for the day, but most people simply tune out or ignore the scientific numbers.» tune out = ignorar, hacer caso omiso, desconectarse de.
Example: She's also able to tune out his increasingly direct attacks on her husband's personal indiscretions.» tune to + a frequency = sintonizar una frecuencia.
Example: A good idea is to read aloud for a part of each session because this is a corporate activity that will settle them down and tune their imaginations to the right frequency.tune3 = adaptar, adecuar, afinar.
Example: Just as delivery must be tuned to suit the kind of material chosen, so must the language used to tell a story.more:
» tune + an instrument = afinar un instrumento.
Example: Flute players spend half their time tuning their instrument and the other half playing out of tune.» tune-up = poner a punto, afinar.
Example: The author recommends a system architecture approach to data base security which is more likely to bring simplicity, isolatability and flexibility to overall system solutions than will ad hoc attempts to tune-up individual parts.