Tune vs. Tube — What's the Difference?

A melody, especially a simple and easily remembered one.

A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.

A song.

An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct

The state of being in correct pitch

A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.

(Obsolete) A musical tone.

(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

Concord or agreement; harmony

An electron tube.

(Archaic) Frame of mind; disposition.

A vacuum tube.

(Electronics) Adjustment of a receiver or circuit for maximum response to a given signal or frequency.

(Botany) The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.

(Music) To put into proper pitch

A tunnel.

(Archaic) To utter musically; sing.

An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.

To adjust (an electronic receiver) to a desired frequency.

The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.

To adjust (an electronic circuit) so as to make it resonant with a given input signal.

An inner tube.

To adjust (an engine, for example) for maximum usability or performance.

An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.

To adjust the wavelength output of (a laser).

Television

To become attuned.

A television set.

A melody.

Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.

A song, or short musical composition.

To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.

(informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.

To place in or enclose in a tube.

The state or condition of being correctly tuned.

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

(obsolete) Temper; frame of mind.

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

(obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.

The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.

(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.

To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.

A tin can containing beer.

To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.

A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.

An idiot.

To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.

(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

To ride an inner tube.

(transitive) To give a certain tone or character to.

To intubate.

(obsolete) To sing with melody or harmony.

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

To be impudent towards; to cheek.

A telescope.

(fandom slang) to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

A sound; a note; a tone.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.

A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.

To sing with melody or harmony.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

To put into a proper state or disposition.

Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

A hollow cylindrical shape

A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

The property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch;

Electric underground railway

The adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency

Provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Adjust for (better) functioning;

Convey in a tube;

Of musical instruments;

Ride or float on an inflated tube;

Place or enclose in a tube