单词 | synergize |
释义 | synergizev. 1. intransitive. To act cooperatively or in combination, esp. to mutual benefit; to exhibit synergy; to act as a synergist. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operate [verb (intransitive)] > together conspirea1538 concur1559 co-operate1604 co-work1613 co-ordinate1863 synergize1863 coacta1877 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > of medicine: act [verb (intransitive)] > co-operate with another synergize1863 1863 W. G. T. Shedd Hist. Christian Doctr. II. 32 As the physician furnishes health to that body which synergizes [Gk. τοῖς συνεργοῦσι] towards health (by a recuperative energy of its own), so God furnishes eternal salvation to those who synergize [Gk. τοῖς συνεργοῦσι] towards the knowledge and obedience of the truth. 1888 Virginia Med. Monthly 15 85 It is evident to any person who understands the action of the two drugs that they antagonize at some points and synergize at others. 1978 Jrnl. Econ. Issues 12 84 How to strike a balance between precision..and vagueness..and how to relate the two so that they synergize rather than cancel each other. 1997 Spy (N.Y.) May 57/2 A creative process that requires dozens of people to ‘synergize’ on a movie's content, Hollywood has a less keenly developed concept of originality than other places. 2006 Science 24 Mar. 1722/3 A PCSK9 inhibitor should synergize with cholesterol-depletion therapy in raising LDL receptor number and lowering plasma LDL concentration. 2. transitive. To act in combination with or increase the effect of (another agent); to potentiate (an effect, process, etc.). ΚΠ 1882 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Medica & Therapeutics (ed. 4) ii. 509 The motor depressants synergize some of the actions of muscarine. 1895 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Mar. 152/1 Strychnine and brucine are each active forces, and in some directions they synergized each other. 1938 Sci. Monthly Aug. 101/2 Here prolactin is observed to synergize, or augment, an effect on the basal metabolism. 1966 Plant Physiol. 41 1443 It was shown directly that polyphenols synergize IAA [= indoleacetic acid]-induced growth by counteracting IAA decarboxylation. 2002 M. D. Greenfield Signalers & Receivers iii. 91 For many years queen pheromone, possibly synergized by secretions from other queen exocrine glands, was also suspected to prime ovarian suppression. Derivatives ˈsynergizing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating together > producing increased effectiveness synergetic1917 synergistic1919 synergizing1954 1913 Trans. Section Ophthalmol. Amer. Med. Assoc. 122 The same play of ‘synergizing’ and ‘antagonizing’ forces takes place at every motion of the eyeball. 1954 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 721/1 The illuminating, synergizing word here, without which the rest is nothing but maundering, is..the word sighs. 2009 S. Chakrabarty & R. W. Woodman in T. Rickards et al. Routledge Compan. Creativity xvi. 203 Such a presence of shared vision is crucial, since it helps the members to forge synergizing inter-person relationships. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1863 |
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