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Meaning of SYNCHRONIZE

Pronunciation:  'singkru`nIz

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 Definition: 
  1. [v]  make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's synchronize our efforts"
  2. [v]  cause to indicate the same time or rate; "synchronize your watches"
  3. [v]  operate simultaneously; "The clocks synchronize"
  4. [v]  arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events"
  5. [v]  make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; "synchronize this film"
  6. [v]  happen at the same time
 
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 Synonyms: contemporise, contemporise, contemporize, contemporize, sync, synchronise, synchronise, synchronise, synchronise
 
 Antonyms: desynchronise, desynchronize
 
 See Also: adjust, align, aline, alter, arrange, change, come about, control, dub, go on, hap, happen, line up, occur, operate, order, pass, pass off, phase, put, set, set up, take place

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Syn"chro*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Synchronized};
    p. pr. & vb. n. {Synchronizing}.] [Gr. ?.]
    To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
          The path of this great empire, through its arch of
          progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. --De
                                                   Quincey.
    
  2. \Syn"chro*nize\, v. t.
    1. To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to
       synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history.
       ``Josephus synchronizes Nisan with the Egyptian Pharmus.''
       --W. L. Bevan.
    2. To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the
       movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.
    
 
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