Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not tuned; unmusical; unharmonious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The state of not having been
tuned . - adjective Of or relating to a musical instrument that doesn't produce specific pitches, e.g. many drums and cymbals.
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Examples
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Until you can show me, in the HIR text, where government buys our private insurance or forces doctors and nurses to work for the government I assume you havent read the text of the bill and are just another untuned piano playing a lobbyist script.
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Drunken college students strum untuned strings and shout incoherent lyrics into flames of illegal campfires.
Johnny Mercer's Pier Paula Ray 2010
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Considerable skill was required to do this, however, and an untuned Model 70 trigger was a horror.
The Model 70 Reborn 2009
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Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair.
In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere Dave McKenna 2011
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Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned.
Watching Pablo Sleep 2008
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A cycle of five settings of extracts from The Tempest, it clothes the disarmingly tonal vocal lines in shimmering textures from trios of flutes and cellos, along with three percussionists playing a variety of tuned and untuned wooden and metallic instruments.
CBSO/Nelsons – review Andrew Clements 2010
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Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned.
Watching Pablo Sleep 2008
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In "Music for Midsummer's Eve," time is an "untuned harmonium/That Muzaks our nights and days."
Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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The noise sounds like the white noise background of an untuned radio.
Grinding grain doyle 2009
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The noise sounds like the white noise background of an untuned radio.
Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009
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