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Definition of Tuner
1. Noun. Someone who tunes pianos.
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Tune
2. Noun. An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals.
Terms within: Amplifier, Detector, Demodulator, Detector
Specialized synonyms: Clock Radio, Crystal Set, Heterodyne Receiver, Superhet, Superheterodyne Receiver, Push-button Radio
Group relationships: Radio, Wireless, Radio-gramophone, Radio-phonograph
Generic synonyms: Receiver, Receiving System
Derivative terms: Radio
Definition of Tuner
1. n. One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
Definition of Tuner
1. Noun. A person who tunes a piano. ¹
2. Noun. A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch. ¹
3. Noun. On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string. ¹
4. Noun. The component of an audio system that receives radio broadcasts. ¹
5. Noun. (context: entertainment industry) A musical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tuner
1. one that tunes [n -S] - See also: tunes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuner
Literary usage of Tuner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"He was the son of an innkeeper in his native city, where he received a good
education at the grammar-school, and was then apprenticed as a piano- tuner to a ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Occupations: A Selected Critical Bibliography of the by Frederick James Allen (1921)
"PIANO AND ORGAN tuner GORDON. A Handbook of Employments, 279-. PLUMBER DOOLEY.
Vocational Mathematics, Part VI, plumbing and hydraulics. GILES. ..."
3. The Hatzfeldt Letters: Letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to His Wife, Written by Paul Hatzfeldt (1905)
"To crown all, the piano-tuner is in the next room playing all sorts of melodies
fit to drive me to distraction. If anyone takes it into his head to annoy me ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"The Proprietor of the Shop doesn't know where the tuner is at present. ...
There is not another pianoforte- tuner to be found at this ..."
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