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# tuner

noun (a tuner, tuners)

«tuner» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tuner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tuner/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tuner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tuner.html) on Mova free.