synchronizev.
/ˈsɪŋkrənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsɪŋkrəˌnaɪz/ 1.
a. intransitive. To occur at the same time; to coincide in point of time; to be contemporary or simultaneous. Const. with.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous [verb (intransitive)]
convene?1541
concur1596
synchronizec1624
contemporatea1638
contemporize1643
coincidate1657
conterminate1664
tryst1669
coexista1676
coincide1809
date1821
simultane1897
co-occur1957
c1624 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 583 The Second Court..synchroniseth with the Times of the Beast.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel ii. 56 To conceive the times of the little Horn to synchronize with all the middle Synchronals of the Apocalypse.
1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 345 To make the invasion synchronize with that bankruptcy, might not be so easy.
1847 T. De Quincey Secret Societies in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 516/2 The birth and the death..synchronise by a metaphysical nicety.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany viii. 115 The degradation of art which synchronized so curiously with the revival of classical learning.
1892 S. Laing Human Origins 51 A King of this dynasty, Khudurhagamar, synchronizes with Abraham.
b. transitive. To cause to be, or represent as, synchronous; to assign the same date to; to bring together events, etc. belonging to the same time. Also absol.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous with [verb (transitive)] > make simultaneous or contemporary
contemporize1646
superimpose1796
synchronize1806
1806 Lady Morgan Wild Irish Girl II. xii. 80 He has synchronized heroes who flourished in two distant periods.
1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 505/2 This little attempt to synchronise the date of all nations with the Mosaic Deluge.
1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 55 On ‘the 25th day of second month of the seventh year of Ansey’,—a date difficult for the historian to synchronise with our own era.
1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. Introd. 6 Nations accordingly, as the desire of exactness or the wish to synchronise arose, invented eras for themselves.
2.
a. intransitive. To occur at the same successive instants of time; to keep time with; to go on at the same rate and exactly together; to have coincident periods, as two sets of movements or vibrations.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous [verb (intransitive)] > keep time with
to keep stotc1590
to keep stroke16..
to keep time1658
to beat time1694
time1830
synchronize1867
simultane1880
1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. Prolegomena p. xxxiii So that the movements of Thought may synchronise with the movements of Things.
1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light §304 Waves of ether are absorbed with special energy..by atoms whose periods of vibration synchronise with the periods of the waves.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. ii. 31 Small motions which synchronise with the appearance and disappearance of solar spots.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iii. 60 If the double period of the ship coincides with the period of the wave, the motions of each synchronise, or keep time, with the other.
b. transitive. To cause to go at the same rate; spec. to cause (a timepiece) to indicate the same time as another.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous with [verb (transitive)] > make simultaneous or contemporary > cause to go at the same rate
to keep (also hold) steeks with1793
time1808
synchronize1879
1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 249 The idea of synchronizing the movements of the two instruments..was employed in telegraphy at a very early period.
1881 S. Bidwell in Nature 10 Feb. 346/1 The two cylinders would be driven by clock-work, synchronised by an electro-magnetic arrangement.
1882 Society 18 Nov. 11/1 Unless the clock..was synchronised with Greenwich time.
c. In technical senses: to cause to coincide in time; to operate simultaneously or in synchronization. Also intransitive.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous with [verb (transitive)] > make simultaneous or contemporary > operate simultaneously
synchronize1910
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 206/1 The movements of the mouths of the characters on the scene synchronise with the utterance of the phonograph.
1922 Radio News (U.S.) Nov. 867/1 (heading) De Forest demonstrates his invention for synchronizing speech with movies... You..heard the tone which, to a musically trained ear, synchronized perfectly with every movement of the violin bow.
1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures 3 So that voice and picture were perfectly synchronized.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 196 René Clair would not dare to synchronize one of his scenes with the sound of a real bal-musette band.
1940 F. J. Mortimer Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 15) 315 Focal-plane shutters can be well synchronised with the flash on small cameras.
1956 Focal Encycl. Photogr. 492/1 The duration of electronic flash discharge is always shorter than the fastest shutter speed with which it can be synchronized.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 912 d/1 It [sc. a video signal]..must have added to it the timing pulses needed to synchronize the receiver.
1962 S. A. Choudhury in G. A. T. Burdett Automatic Control Handbk. iv. 39 A recent development which enables the receiver to accelerate from rest and automatically synchronise by simply putting the excitation on the selsyns through a three-pole switch.
1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 34/2 Cheaper cameras which only take bulbs or cubes are synchronized at low speeds, usually around 1/25 sec.
3. gen. To combine or co-ordinate.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)]
compoundc1384
combind1477
consolidate1511
combinea1535
conjoin1554
consociate1566
associate1578
mingle1587
symbolize1590
compack1605
cojoina1616
to run into ——1640
to put together1651
amalgamate1802
integrate1802
conferruminate1826
amalgam1827
synthetize1828
synthesize1830
portmanteau1902
team1939
synchronize1973
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 3 Apr. 4/5 The law is probably the only profession that must be synchronized with another profession—writing.
1976 Time 27 Dec. , facing p. 36 (advt.) Both media synchronize national interests with multinational scope.
1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 July 33/2 Silberman quotes an unreported speech given by the foreign minister, Milos Minic, which alleges not only that Western intelligence is involved with fascist exiles but also that Western press coverage of Yugoslavia is synchronized to discredit the country.
Derivatives
ˈsynchronizing n. and adj.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective]
altogether?c1400
concurrent1495
contemporana1500
unison1582
coincident1598
coetaneal1614
coactivea1616
contemporal1621
synchronisticalc1624
coetanean1625
coetaneous1649
coinstantanean1652
synchronical1652
simultal1654
contemporary1656
contemporaneous1659
simultaneousa1660
coevous1660
synchronal1660
coexistent1662
implicit1662
synchronous1669
coexistinga1676
synchronistic1685
coeval1714
contemporany1721
synchronizinga1727
joint1765
coinstantaneous1768
consentaneous1775
coinciding1786
conterminating1805
synchronic1833
coincidental1845
parallel1859
homochronous1876
monochronic1905
co-occurring1951
co-occurrent1954
the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > synchronizing
synchronization1828
synchronizing1882
phasing1896
togetherhood1896
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > exact matching of sound and picture
synchronization1828
synchronism1904
sync1929
synchronizing1931
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > tuning or mistuning
tuning1899
tune1909
mistuning1914
fine tuning1915
synchronization1932
synchronizing1943
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 191 Comparing the affairs of Egypt with the synchronizing affairs of the Greeks and Hebrews.
1840 T. De Quincey Mod. Superstition in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 555/1 To suppose, that by some synchronising miracle, the constellation had been then specially called into existence.
1880 Echo 24 Dec. 3/4 The synchronising..of clocks..by means of pneumatic motive power transmitted through tubes..which has been found to answer admirably in Paris.
1882 C. Wood in Argosy 34 136 We become comparatively intimate; there is a sympathy, a power of ‘synchronizing’.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iii. 61 If a ship falls in with waves of synchronising period,..her rolling will then be the heaviest.
1901 A. Russell in Electr. Rev. 19 July 88/2 The synchronising current.
1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 136/1 In the latter case the synchronising signals must be transmitted over a channel separate from the picture channel [in phototelegraphy].
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station iv. 68 The ‘synchronizing gear’, enabling a machine-gun to fire through the tractor air-screw.
1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures i. 3 The earliest practical attempts at synchronizing, i.e. keeping speech and gesture perfectly in phase.
1943 Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 35 Synchronising, the adjustment of the frequency of the time base to bear an integral relationship to the frequency of the phenomenon under investigation.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production ii. 20 (caption) The component parts of the video signal..synchronizing level.
ˌsynchroniˈzation n. the action of synchronizing, spec. in Electrical Engineering and in other technical uses.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > synchronizing
synchronization1828
synchronizing1882
phasing1896
togetherhood1896
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > exact matching of sound and picture
synchronization1828
synchronism1904
sync1929
synchronizing1931
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > tuning or mistuning
tuning1899
tune1909
mistuning1914
fine tuning1915
synchronization1932
synchronizing1943
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > phase > [noun] > synchronization of phase
synchronization1962
1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy I. Pref. p. xiii If the principle of abstract synchronisation be rejected, the Apocalypse..becomes a mere chaos.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 July 5/2 The synchronization of the Twelfth of July with the nomination day.
1913 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. 3/1 Mr. Edison was looking for perfect synchronization of record and film.
1922 Radio News (U.S.) Nov. 867/1 Mr. de Forest has solved the secret of the ‘talkie movie’ with perfect synchronization.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 17 Aug. 134/4 The sound is transformed into light and recorded on the margin of the film in automatic synchronisation with the movement of the lips.
1932 Discovery July 215/1 Lodge had shown the importance of tuning or ‘synchronization’.
1940 Amateur Radio Handbk. (ed. 2) xix. 274/1 When the vision signals are..subject to serious interference which tends to upset synchronisation.
1958 Newnes Compl. Amateur Photogr. 37 Shutter synchronisation.
1958 Newnes Compl. Amateur Photogr. 37 The flash synchronisation may have only an X setting.
1962 S. A. Choudhury in G. A. T. Burdett Automatic Control Handbk. iv. 36 If, before the supply is switched on, the rotors are 180 degrees displaced, no synchronisation will take place when the excitation is applied.
synchronized adj. (see quot. 1931).
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1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures 287 A synchronized picture differs from a true talkie in that the scenes are first taken silent and then the accompaniment is added.
Draft additions September 2012
transitive. Computing. To cause (data or files) to remain identical in more than one location, changes made to a copy in one location being propagated to the others.
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1988 Proc. 14th Internat. Conf. Very Large Data Bases 22/2 Synchronizing three copies of data is very expensive for the other algorithms with this message cost.
1992 MacUser Nov. Nov. 257/2 Most file-synchronization utilities require that you organize your file structure to group files and folders that you want synchronized.
2003 Sams teach Yourself Mac OS X Digital Media xi. 229 When set up, iTunes will open automatically and your iPod will automatically synchronize its music library with the one on your computer.
2011 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 8 June (Finance section) 2 MobileMe, a..service that allowed people to synchronize their calendar, e-mail and contacts across devices.
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