Crossword clues for synchronize
synchronize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synchronize \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.
Synchronize \Syn"chro*nize\, v. t.
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.To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to occur at the same time," from Greek synkhronizein "be of the same time," from synkhronos "happening at the same time" (see synchronous). The transitive sense of "make synchronous" is first recorded 1806. Of timepieces by 1879. Related: Synchronized; synchronizing. Synchronized swimming is recorded from 1950.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To cause two or more events to happen at exactly the same time, at the same rate, or in a time-coordinated way. To harmonize in regard to time. 2 (context intransitive English) To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause two or more events to happen at exactly the same time, at the same rate, or in a time-coordinated way. To harmonize in regard to time. 2 (context intransitive English) To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
WordNet
v. make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's synchronize our efforts" [syn: synchronise, sync] [ant: desynchronize, desynchronize]
happen at the same time [syn: synchronise, contemporize, contemporise]
make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; "synchronize this film" [syn: synchronise]
arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events" [syn: synchronise, contemporize, contemporise]
operate simultaneously; "The clocks synchronize" [syn: synchronise]
cause to indicate the same time or rate; "synchronize your watches" [syn: synchronise]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "synchronize".
Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?
The League can barely wipe their own noses, and they eradicated Omnius on every Synchronized World except Corrin, where he hides behind all his weapons.
A group of enthusiastic and ill-advised jihadi soldiers had launched their own vengeful strike against the main Synchronized World of Corrin.
The audio on the tape recaptured the radio transmissions between Johar and Samir and had been synchronized with the action.
One thing had been decided by them in council, that was, to make this great epoch in their renationalization to synchronize with their New Year, which would properly fall the next month, on October 2nd, to be correct.
The music of the Rov Hum was created to synchronize with each action, enticing and entrancing with each note.
In its most refined form, persistent sync can be spectacular, as in the kickline of the Rockettes or the matched movements of synchronized swimmers.
Lou Pecora provided a blow-by-blow account of how he and Tom Carroll were led to the discovery of synchronized chaos.
The fluorescent band composed of these tiny organisms lights up and goes out with a precision that is perfectly synchronized, and one is left wondering what means of communication they possess which enables them to coordinate their shining as though controlled by a mechanical device.
Sperm swimming side by side en route to the egg beat their tails in unison, in a primordial display of synchronized swimming.
In the synchronized state, both of the other oscillators have voltage 0 too.
Now the population acted more like an Eastern European concert audience, in which synchronized applause bursts out without any prompting.
The end result was a population split into a synchronized pack and a disorganized band of fringe oscillators.
As he made the distribution even narrower, more and more oscillators were co-opted into the synchronized pack.
If the bell curve is broader than this threshold, meaning that the club membership is too diverse, the partially synchronized state disappears.