Definition of Synchronise

1. Verb. Happen at the same time.


2. Verb. Make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action. "Synchronize this film"
Exact synonyms: Synchronize
Category relationships: Film, Flick, Motion Picture, Motion-picture Show, Movie, Moving Picture, Moving-picture Show, Pic, Picture, Picture Show
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Dub
Derivative terms: Synchrony

3. Verb. Arrange or represent events so that they co-occur. "Synchronize biblical events"
Exact synonyms: Contemporise, Contemporize, Synchronize
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Order, Put, Set Up
Derivative terms: Synchrony, Synchrony

4. Verb. Operate simultaneously. "The clocks synchronize"
Exact synonyms: Synchronize
Related verbs: Synchronize
Generic synonyms: Control, Operate

5. Verb. Cause to indicate the same time or rate. "Synchronize your watches"
Exact synonyms: Synchronize
Generic synonyms: Adjust, Align, Aline, Line Up
Related verbs: Synchronize

6. Verb. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner. "Let's synchronize our efforts"

Definition of Synchronise

1. Verb. (chiefly British) alternative spelling of synchronize ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Synchronise

1. [v -NISED, -NISING, -NISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Synchronise

synchromeshes
synchromysticism
synchronal
synchroneities
synchroneity
synchronic
synchronic linguistics
synchronical
synchronically
synchronicities
synchronicity
synchronies
synchronisable
synchronisation
synchronisations
synchronise (current term)
synchronised
synchronised skating
synchronised swimmer
synchronised swimmers
synchronised swimming
synchroniser
synchronises
synchronising
synchronism
synchronisms
synchronistic
synchronizability
synchronizable
synchronization

Literary usage of Synchronise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Prospects of the Jews by Hugh McNeile (1840)
"I observe, however, upon the relative date of the termination of the times of the Gentiles; that it will synchronise with the restoration of the Jewish ..."

2. Perception, Physics, and Reality: An Enquiry Into the Information that by Charlie Dunbar Broad (1914)
"If so you can further completely synchronise the clocks by seeing that all ... The people on /S, can synchronise their clocks with their standard one in the ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"I was rarely able to make a discharge between the terminals and that passing to the finger synchronise, but on the admission of air it was easy enough. ..."

4. Prospects of the Jews by Hugh McNeile (1840)
"I observe, however, upon the relative date of the termination of the times of the Gentiles; that it will synchronise with the restoration of the Jewish ..."

5. Perception, Physics, and Reality: An Enquiry Into the Information that by Charlie Dunbar Broad (1914)
"If so you can further completely synchronise the clocks by seeing that all ... The people on /S, can synchronise their clocks with their standard one in the ..."

6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"I was rarely able to make a discharge between the terminals and that passing to the finger synchronise, but on the admission of air it was easy enough. ..."

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