verb

• (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt
• (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
• (transitive, electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
• (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression