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SYNCHRONISE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner

Example:

Let's synchronize our efforts

Synonyms:

sync; synchronise; synchronize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "synchronise" is one way to...):

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "synchronise"):

phase (adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

desynchronise (cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times)

Derivation:

synchronisation (coordinating by causing to indicate the same time)

synchronisation (an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison)

synchroniser (an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines))

synchronising (an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison)

synchrony (the relation that exists when things occur at the same time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to indicate the same time or rate

Example:

synchronize your watches

Synonyms:

synchronise; synchronize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "synchronise" is one way to...):

adjust; align; aline; line up (place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight)

Verb group:

synchronise; synchronize (operate simultaneously)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Operate simultaneously

Example:

The clocks synchronize

Synonyms:

synchronise; synchronize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "synchronise" is one way to...):

control; operate (handle and cause to function)

Verb group:

synchronise; synchronize (cause to indicate the same time or rate)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Arrange or represent events so that they co-occur

Example:

synchronize biblical events

Synonyms:

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "synchronise" is one way to...):

arrange; order; put; set up (arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

synchrony (the relation that exists when things occur at the same time)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action

Example:

synchronize this film

Synonyms:

synchronise; synchronize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "synchronise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "synchronise"):

dub (provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Happen at the same time

Synonyms:

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "synchronise" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

synchronisation; synchrony (the relation that exists when things occur at the same time)

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