Key and Tune

Key

Key verb - To bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences.

Usage example: her response was perfectly keyed to the situation

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Tune and key are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tune" instead a verb "Key".

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

Tune verb - Adjust the pitches of (musical instruments).

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Key and tune are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Key" instead a verb "Tune".

Nearby Words: tuned, tuneful, tuneless, tunefulness, tuning

old	old key	old tune
special	special key	special tune
particular	particular key	particular tune
similar	similar key	similar tune
Other adjectives: specific, certain, appropriate, standard, original, light, single, simple, actual, real, big, dark, main, new, last, different.

And somehow somewhere in the mists of time since Lully and Händel, the tune entered Swedish folk music, where the key was changed to minor (Swedish folk music is nearly always in minor key).

Source: To The Tune Of / Real Life
The theme tune to The Brothers Flub is a deep voice singing "flub flub flub" and a bunch of off-key "na na na"s.

Source: Surreal Theme Tune
One common tune is slowly repeating the first six notes of "Ring Around the Rosey" in a minor key.

Source: Ironic Nursery Tune

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