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# tuner

«tuner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a device that helps you tune a musical instrument by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tuner, tuners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tuner is a device that helps you tune a musical instrument by showing whether a note is too high, too low or just right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#m1)

2) A tuner is the part of a radio or TV that picks up a chosen station or channel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#m2)

3) A tuner is a person whose job is tuning instruments, especially pianos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons pupils use a clip-on tuner or an app before playing guitar, violin or ukulele. In science lessons about sound and waves, a radio tuner picks a frequency. In everyday life, a piano tuner visits to fix the sound of a piano.

### examples

- Clip the tuner onto your guitar before you start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#x1)
- The tuner showed my string was too low. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#x2)
- The piano tuner came to fix our old piano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#x3)
- Turn the radio tuner to find the music station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#x4)
- My violin teacher uses a tuner app on her phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#x5)
- A tuner helps you get each string exactly right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#x6)

### note

Countable. From the verb «tune» + «-r». Do not confuse with «tuna», the fish, which sounds similar.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tuner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.