Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To bring or come into agreement or harmony.
- intransitive verb Music To provide harmony for (a melody).
- intransitive verb To be in agreement; be harmonious. synonym: correspond.
- intransitive verb Music To sing or play in harmony.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be in harmony.
- To agree in sense or purport.
- To agree in sentiment or feeling; be at peace one with another.
- To make harmonious; adjust in fit proportions; cause to agree; show the harmony or agreement of; reconcile contradictions between.
- To make musically harmonious; combine according to the laws of counterpoint; also, to set accompanying parts to, as an air or melody: as, a harmonized song.
- Also spelled
harmonise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport.
- intransitive verb To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
- intransitive verb To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord.
- transitive verb To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
- transitive verb (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To be in
harmonious agreement . - verb intransitive, music To
play orsing inharmony . - verb transitive To bring things into harmony, or to make things
compatible . - verb transitive To provide the harmony for a
melody .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb write a harmony for
- verb go together
- verb bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
- verb bring into consonance or accord
- verb sing or play in harmony
- verb bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously
Etymologies
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Examples
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They also amalgamate our nations into greater groupings, each with its Rothschild controlled 'Central Bank', for their easier management - by them, of course, rather than by the rightful inhabitants of the various subservient countries, and raise - 'harmonize' - all our price levels.
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Yet the name should harmonize with the spirit of the thing.
Zen Computer Philip Toshio Sudo 1999
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"harmonize" - the term used in explaining why some blogs have been removed from websites - sounds similar to the term for river crab.
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And then those two ideas started to kind of harmonize with each other, resonate with each other.
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And then those two ideas started to kind of harmonize with each other, resonate with each other.
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Days later, the White House released its formal proposal that avoided the issue, proposing instead to "harmonize" regulation instead.
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Chinese Web users frequently use "harmonize" as a euphemism for censorship.
Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship Loretta Chao 2010
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And then those two ideas started to kind of harmonize with each other, resonate with each other.
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And then those two ideas started to kind of harmonize with each other, resonate with each other.
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And then those two ideas started to kind of harmonize with each other, resonate with each other.
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