ATTUNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attune mean? 

• ATTUNE (verb)
  The verb ATTUNE has 1 sense:

1. adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with

  Familiarity information: ATTUNE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTUNE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they attune    ... he / she / it attunes   
Past simple: attuned   
Past participle: attuned   
-ing form: attuning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "attune" is one way to...):

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

The researchers say that their findings apply to many other types of affiliative bond, including between couples, close friends, and siblings, where each person is highly attuned to the other.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

The expedition in July 2018 provided a unique opportunity to see first-hand how a massive input of external nutrients alters marine ecosystems that are finely attuned to low-nutrient conditions.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My! for a poet, delicately attuned and all the rest of it, you can make unlovely noises. My ear-drums are pierced. You outwhistle— Orpheus.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As part of this effort, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope missions, all attuned to different varieties of X-ray light, turned their gaze to the M87 black hole around the same time as the EHT in April 2017.

(Black Hole Image Makes History, NASA)

Just as he caught the swing of them and started, his imagination attuned in flight, always they vanished away in a chaotic scramble of sounds that was meaningless to him, and that dropped his imagination, an inert weight, back to earth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)