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synchronise

vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling synchronize English)

WordNet
synchronise
  1. v. happen at the same time [syn: synchronize, contemporize, contemporise]

  2. make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; "synchronize this film" [syn: synchronize]

  3. arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events" [syn: synchronize, contemporize, contemporise]

  4. operate simultaneously; "The clocks synchronize" [syn: synchronize]

  5. cause to indicate the same time or rate; "synchronize your watches" [syn: synchronize]

  6. make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's synchronize our efforts" [syn: synchronize, sync] [ant: desynchronize, desynchronize]

Usage examples of "synchronise".

Section Officer Robertson covertly all through the meal, timing the progress of his lunch to synchronise with hers while talking to Humphries about accelerated take-offs.

When the gates were brought down in a dramatic synchronised gesture, the crowd trampled them underfoot and surged into Downing Street, sweeping Jack along with them, and surrounded the front door of Number Ten.

It was a lovely game synchronising all six, I can tell you, but when it was done we found that the transmitted elements were ultra-microscopic in size, which quite good enough for most purposes.

If the woman who had been a man also delayed the development of her fertilised egg, then it was possible to synchronise the growth of the two fetuses and the birth of the babies.

You may find your menstrual cycle moves slowly to synchronise with the Moon.

After two minutes Nicolson spoke softly to Farnholme, and the Brigadier went running off up the hill: only seconds later he was firing spaced shots in the direction of the submarine, the flat, explosive crack of the carbine roughly synchronising with and covering the metallic rings from the north side of the island as Nicolson and the others removed the shuttering of the buoyancy tanks and withdrew the yellow metal aircases, but leaving enough of the tanks in place to give the boat a strong positive buoyancy.

I earned on through passport control, boarded the shuttle and was shown to my seat by a stewardess whose fixed smile reminded me of a synchronised swimmer.