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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
harmonize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Countries need to work to harmonize standards on pesticides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Best of all was his melodic inspiration: his creations were still being analyzed, harmonized and celebrated half a century later.
▪ But tax harmonizing brings with it an implicit harmonization of spending levels, since total tax burdens must be basically similar.
▪ By means of these virtues of inherent nature, the tao without is harmonized with the tao within.
▪ Departmental objectives are required to harmonize with these.
▪ Microeconomic systems of government regulations have to be harmonized.
▪ Our programme is of authentic and arranged songs, harmonized by composers.
▪ The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them.
▪ When the plane crashed, it sounded a note that harmonized with the disaster of my early life.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harmonize

Harmonize \Har"mo*nize\ (h[aum]r"m[-o]*n[imac]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harmonized (-n[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harmonizing (-n[imac]"z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. harmoniser. ]

  1. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

  2. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.

  3. To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.

Harmonize

Harmonize \Har"mo*nize\, v. t.

  1. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.

  2. (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
harmonize

late 15c., "play or sing in harmony," from French harmoniser (15c.), from Old French harmonie (see harmony). Meaning "be in harmony" is from 1620s; that of "bring into agreement" is from 1727. Related: Harmonized; harmonizing.

Wiktionary
harmonize

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To be in (l en harmonious) (l en agreement). 2 (context intransitive music English) To play or sing in harmony. 3 (context transitive English) To bring things into harmony, or to make things (l en compatible). 4 (context transitive English) To provide the harmony for a (l en melody).

WordNet
harmonize
  1. v. go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree]

  2. write a harmony for [syn: harmonise]

  3. sing or play in harmony [syn: harmonise]

  4. bring into consonance or relate harmoniously; "harmonize the different interests" [syn: harmonise]

  5. bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" [syn: harmonise, reconcile]

  6. bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing [syn: harmonise, chord]

Usage examples of "harmonize".

The southern Indian nations had their own customs and traditions, which harmonized far more closely with Arkansan practice than they ever had with that of Americans.

This not only insures a smooth, melodious flow, but enables the composer to heighten the effect of any situation by choosing consonants that harmonize with it.

A quartet of singers in Dickensian dress harmonized carols outside the ballroom door.

She replied very kindly, very earnestly, and with a dignity of expression as well as of thought which harmonized entirely with my vision of her deeper and grander nature.

They had a dark ebony-coloured look, which did great violence to our Manhattanese notions, but which harmonized gloriously with a bluish sky, the grey walls beneath, and a background of hanging fields.

Through enactment, they were meant to feel themselves incorporated into a ritual of France Renovated: past, present and future arrayed and harmonized like some Ovidian metamorphosis.

He sang for about an hour, the small, rabbitlike creature harmonizing with parrotlike faithfulness to the tune, and had lunch.

Gospels, harmonizing all the contradictory versions of what Jesus said and did into one Tolstoyan text.

Which in the winds on the waves doth move, Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above.

Well, given the information about how to compose music, that was the perfect chorale, the logical and perfect way to write and harmonize the music, the inevitability of perfection.

Three of the men were harmonizing zestfully on The Agincourt Carol, their strong, rough voices still clear to Farrell after they had disappeared among the alder bushes.

I only mention it because for a moment or two there it sounded like someone else was singing the la-las and dum-dee-dums along with him, kind of harmonizing.

The only concession she had made to Amberdrake's sartorial splendor was to harmonize with his browns and ambers with her own browns and creams.

The walls were an ice green, the long low dresser, sleek armoir, wide bookcase all a blued metal that harmonized perfectly.

Because budget and broom-closet constraints make artful transitions between scenes impractical, Mario has opted for the inter-scenic 'entr'acte' device of having Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner doing some of his repertoire's bouncier numbers, with the cabinet-members undulating and harmonizing Motownishly behind him, and other puppets bouncing in tempo on and offstage as the script requires.