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Meaning of "detune" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DETUNE

detune  [diːˈtjuːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETUNE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Detune is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb detune in English.

WHAT DOES DETUNE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of detune in the English dictionary

The first definition of detune in the dictionary is to change the pitch of, whether for musical or maintenance purposes. Other definition of detune is to change the resonant frequency of such that it no longer matches that of the incoming signal. Detune is also to blunt the edges of the ends of, in order to make turning easier for the skier.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DETUNE

PRESENT

Present
I detune
you detune
he/she/it detunes
we detune
you detune
they detune
Present continuous
I am detuning
you are detuning
he/she/it is detuning
we are detuning
you are detuning
they are detuning
Present perfect
I have detuned
you have detuned
he/she/it has detuned
we have detuned
you have detuned
they have detuned
Present perfect continuous
I have been detuning
you have been detuning
he/she/it has been detuning
we have been detuning
you have been detuning
they have been detuning
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I detuned
you detuned
he/she/it detuned
we detuned
you detuned
they detuned
Past continuous
I was detuning
you were detuning
he/she/it was detuning
we were detuning
you were detuning
they were detuning
Past perfect
I had detuned
you had detuned
he/she/it had detuned
we had detuned
you had detuned
they had detuned
Past perfect continuous
I had been detuning
you had been detuning
he/she/it had been detuning
we had been detuning
you had been detuning
they had been detuning
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will detune
you will detune
he/she/it will detune
we will detune
you will detune
they will detune
Future continuous
I will be detuning
you will be detuning
he/she/it will be detuning
we will be detuning
you will be detuning
they will be detuning
Future perfect
I will have detuned
you will have detuned
he/she/it will have detuned
we will have detuned
you will have detuned
they will have detuned
Future perfect continuous
I will have been detuning
you will have been detuning
he/she/it will have been detuning
we will have been detuning
you will have been detuning
they will have been detuning
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would detune
you would detune
he/she/it would detune
we would detune
you would detune
they would detune
Conditional continuous
I would be detuning
you would be detuning
he/she/it would be detuning
we would be detuning
you would be detuning
they would be detuning
Conditional perfect
I would have detune
you would have detune
he/she/it would have detune
we would have detune
you would have detune
they would have detune
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been detuning
you would have been detuning
he/she/it would have been detuning
we would have been detuning
you would have been detuning
they would have been detuning
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you detune
we let´s detune
you detune
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to detune
Past participle
detuned
Present Participle
detuning
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETUNE


attune
əˈtjuːn
autoimmune
ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjuːn
autotune
ˈɔːtəʊˌtjuːn
choon
tjuːn
commune
kəˈmjuːn
disattune
ˌdɪsəˈtjuːn
distune
dɪsˈtjuːn
dune
djuːn
immune
ɪˈmjuːn
importune
ɪmˈpɔːtjuːn
infortune
ɪnˈfɔːtjuːn
inopportune
ɪnˈɒpəˌtjuːn
mistune
ˌmɪsˈtjuːn
Neptune
ˈnɛptjuːn
opportune
ˈɒpəˌtjuːn
preattune
ˌpriːəˈtjuːn
retune
riːˈtjuːn
tribune
ˈtrɪbjuːn
tune
tjuːn
untune
ʌnˈtjuːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETUNE

detrainment
detribalisation
detribalise
detribalization
detribalize
detriment
detrimental
detrimentally
detrital
detrition
detritovore
detritus
Detroit
detrude
detruncate
detruncation
detrusion
detumescence
detumescent

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETUNE

befortune
call the tune
carry a tune
change one´s tune
Dame Fortune
fine-tune
fortune
give hostages to fortune
misfortune
pay the piper and call the tune
signature tune
small fortune
soldier of fortune
unfortune
wheel of fortune

Synonyms and antonyms of detune in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «detune» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DETUNE

Find out the translation of detune to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of detune from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «detune» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

失谐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desafinación
570 millions of speakers

English

detune
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेसूरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

detune
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Detune
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

detune
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

detune
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

désaccord
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Detune
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verstimmung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

デチューン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디튠
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Detune
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

detune
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொனிப்பிறக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अडथळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Detune
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

detune
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Detune
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Detune
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

detune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

DETUNE
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bederven
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Detune
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Detune
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of detune

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETUNE»

The term «detune» is regularly used and occupies the 65.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DETUNE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «detune» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «detune» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about detune

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETUNE»

Discover the use of detune in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to detune and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How to Make a Noise: A Comprehensive Guide to Synthesizer ...
The differences between Two Saw Detune Running and Two Saw Detune Phase Sync are significant when building patches. The free-running patch may give a sound that is far more suited to a soft pad where the phase-synchronized sound ...
Simon Cann, 2007
2
Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform
To fine-tune a clip by “cents,” use Detune. This can help lockup the intonation between two different clips or if you want to create a chorused effect (two or more clips deliberately detuned to so that their pitch offsets create a “beading effect” or  ...
Assistant Professor of Sociology Keith Robinson, Keith Robinson, Huston Singletary, 2013
3
Snowboarding: Learning to Ride from All-Mountain to Park
Next you want to detune the tip and tail of your snowboard. Find the widest part of your board at the nose and at the tail. Those are called the contact points. They are the sections of edge that make the most contact with the snow, and they're ...
Liam Gallagher
4
Programming Synthesizers
Adjust the detune or fine control and listen to how the sound thickens and becomes more ambient. (What you hear is similar to the chorus effect.) When the detune control is set at zero, the two oscillators operate at the exact same frequencies ...
Casabona, Helen, Frederick, David
5
The Solar Dynamics Observatory
Two kinds of sequences were frequently used: detune and cotune sequences. A detune sequence is a series of filtergrams taken with the Lyot tunable element E1 , the NB Michelson, and the WB Michelson out of phase: the tuning phases ...
Phillip Chamberlin, William Dean Pesnell, Barbara Thompson, 2012
6
Reason 6 Ignite!:: The Visual Guide for New Users
The Visual Guide for New Users G.W. Childs IV. [I In a freshly initialized Thor, click the arrow in the upper-left corner of Oscillator 1 and choose Multi Oscillator. Then play your keyboard to hear the sound of Random 1, the default detune mode.
G.W. Childs IV, 2012
7
Reason 4 Ignite!: The Visual Guide for New Users
B Click the down arrow once more to select FiFth For the detune mode, and you will hear a big mess when you play your keyboard. Turn the detune amount up to 9 o'clock, and you will hear a chorusing eFFect. In a Freshly initialized Thor, ...
Matt Piper, 2008
8
Using Logic Pro Synthesizers
Stereo Detune. The Stereo Detune knob controls the intensity the stereo detune effect has on the EFM1 signal. Stereo detune sounds similar to a stereo chorus effect. WhentheStereo Detune knob is set to 0, there is no stereo detune effect, and ...
Kevin Anker, 2011
9
Beginning Synthesizer
For that reason, most VCOs have a control, labeled "detune" or "fine" that lets you detune the two VCOs to microtonal(smallerthan a half-step) intervals. If your instrument hassuch a control, try this: • Call up a blank, unprogrammed sound and ...
Helen Casabona, Frederick, David, 1987
10
Web Audio API
Conveniently, all of this semitone-related offsetting isn't really necessary to do manually, since many audio environments (the Web Audio API included) include a notion of detune, which linearizes the frequency domain. Detune is measured in ...
Boris Smus, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DETUNE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term detune is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Logic Pros: How to create Retro Synth patches with custom …
From there you'll find the new Voice Stacking option and the ability to set the Voice (stereo) Spread and Detune, making for some very fat and ... «9 to 5 Mac, Jul 15»
2
Additive Synth For Reason
To fatten your sounds, each oscillator can be virtually duplicated up to 8 times with a pitch detune. After that, if this isn't enough, another virtual ... «Sonic State, Jun 15»
3
Play Up To 16 monosynths Polyphonically...
UNISON DETUNE: Three Unison Detune modes -- detune down, detune up/down, and detune up -- allow you to play up to 16 notes in unison, ... «Sonic State, Jun 15»
4
Top 10 Best European Sports Cars of the '80s
But unlike a lot of other cars, Porsche didn't detune the road going version of the car. Making 444 HP from a turbocharged 2.85-liter six-cylinder ... «AutoGuide.com, Jun 15»
5
Andy Priaulx frustrated by effects of winter rule changes
If you detune us, we'll be eighth, ninth and tenth.” Team BMR's Colin Turkington, who now races a front-wheel drive Volkswagen CC after many ... «TouringCarTimes, Jun 15»
6
New cars spied this week
However, Volkswagen often detune its performance cars for Australia, citing the extreme temperatures. The regular Golf R gets 15kW less than ... «Drive, May 15»
7
2015 Beta XTrainer 300 First Ride
Also, it was much easier to detune an already proven engine than design a new one. 15_Beta-CrossTrainer-19-web.jpg. Slightly Smaller. «MotorcycleUSA.com, May 15»
8
Local Singer-songwriter Brent Kirby Embraces 'Artistic Freedom'
“I rented snare drums and guitar amps and we would detune the drums and pick out what pedals and amps we wanted. We would form the ... «Cleveland Scene Weekly, May 15»
9
From Le Mans to the street: Next Nissan GT-R could get race …
That means engineers won't have to severely detune the engine to make it suitable for road use. Bowlby claims it's also well-mannered, revving ... «Digital Trends, Apr 15»
10
Volkswagen pushes forward with 300kW Golf R
Audi and Volkswagen detune four-cylinder performance cars for Australia, though most other manufacturers do not restrict power for Australian ... «Drive, Apr 15»

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