tun

[US]/tʌn/
[UK]/tʌn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a large cask for holding beer, wine, etc.
Word Forms
Pluraltuns

Phrases & Collocations

tuna salad

tune in

tuned instrument

Example Sentences

a high level of tuning and ensemble is guaranteed.

a mix of traditional tunes and originals.

tunes in waltz time .

he tuned the harp for me.

the radio was tuned to the BBC.

tuned out the children's screaming.

wove folk tunes into the symphony.

The orchestra tuned their instruments.

They are tuning up a plane on the flight line.

strings tuned a fifth apart.

the guitars were strung and tuned to pitch.

the animals are finely tuned to life in the desert.

it's important to be tuned in to your child's needs.

She is not very well tuned into her surroundings.

The children tuned out their mother's commands.

She tuned up her piano.

His radio is permanently tuned to Radio 1.

Real-world Examples

For many tardigrades, this requires that they go through something called a tun state.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

They can dry up into a lifeless ball in what scientists call a " tun" .

Source: Life Noggin

And tunning to my FREE live pronunciation lesson every Sunday at 16: 30 GMT Aly: Have a lovely Merry Christmas.

Source: English With Lucy

Scientists are now to trying to find out whether tardigrades use the tun state, their anti-drying technique, to survive other stresses.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

" You may have a tun. It is from the cellars of the Good Masters of Astapor, and I have wagons full of it" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

We had a charming time poking about the ruins, the vaults where the monster tun is, and the beautiful gardens made by the elector long ago for his English wife.

Source: "Little Women" original version

It's thought that as water becomes scarce and tardigrades enter their tun state, they start synthesize special molecules, which fill the tardigrade's cells to replace lost water by forming a matrix.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns.

Source: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

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