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carrying a tune

carrying a tune is the present participle of carry a tune.

Meaning of carry a tune

Verb

carry a tune (third-person singular simple present carries a tune, present participle carrying a tune, simple past and past participle carried a tune)

  1. To produce music, especially to sing, with accurate relative pitch.
    • Jenny is named for a singer and Fanny for a beautiful dancer, but mother says they're both misfits, for Jenny can't carry a tune and Fanny's kind of stiff-legged.1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 1, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm

Questions about carrying a tune

What is carrying a tune the present participle of?
Carrying a tune is the present participle of carry a tune.

Words near carrying a tune in the dictionary

  1. carryforwards
  2. carryin'
  3. carrying
  4. carrying a torch
  5. carrying a torch for
  6. carrying a tune
  7. carrying all before one
  8. carrying away
  9. carrying basket
  10. carrying baskets
  11. carrying capacities

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