The word "tuner" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a device for tuning musical instruments, for example: "I need to buy a new tuner for my guitar."
His college offered to train him as a piano tuner, a lathe operator or a Braille shorthand typist.
The iBiquity scheme involves a tuner built to receive a digital bitstream from a broadcaster transmitting a signal using the IBOC format.
After "The Piano", "The Piano Teacher" and "The Pianist", all that's missing is a piano tuner.
If you want to try and sell me a cheap Jumbo McFattyburger by tossing in a free guitar tuner, that's one thing.
Whatever happens to iBiquity, the days of the squeaky AM/FM tuner are clearly numbered.
Hence the piano tuner, Edgar Drake, who is summoned from his middle-aged, married, London existence to make the mad journey into the Burmese interior, only to find himself without an exit helplessly in thrall to the spell of the east.In this section Turn out the stars Corporate delicti A good sectarian Life's a beach Carry on up-river The roots of rock ReprintsThe novel is cunningly filmic.
Before examining the professor's historical analogies, could I point out that unlike, say, being a chemist, physician, lawyer, engineer, accountant, plumber, tree surgeon, piano tuner, or barber, being a "historian" means absolutely nothing in terms of professional qualifications or special expertise?
In many cases, this is because consumers are unaware of the distinction; they buy a big new flat-panel HDTV and plug it into their existing cable or satellite tuner.
An electromagnetic wave so generated can be received by a similar antenna connected to an oscillating electric circuit in the tuner that is tuned to that same frequency.
After all, it costs less than $1,000 to kit out a multimedia PC with a large hard drive, a TV-tuner card, a high-definition monitor and software (such as ShowShifter) to provide all the video features of a PVR machine.
Before he arrived, he had been a co-editor of Poetry, and by the end of his long tenure here he had become the resident grammarian, academician, fine-tuner, and fixer-upper of the magazine's cartoons: a logical progression, one can almost hear him say.
