Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods. Compare
synthetist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
synthesizes . - noun A
musician who plays asynthesizer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
Etymologies
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Examples
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While discerning new listeners might favor the obscure, they should not miss Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, who remains one of the greatest and most successful living African performers, a pop stylist and synthesist without peer.
Getting the Band Back Together Andy Beta 2011
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Well, I'm still busy, still looking for paying work if you know anyone in need of a freelance editor, point them at me; anyone with a niche book to publish, I may be interested; anyone interested in hiring a smart intellectual synthesist, I'm available, but really, no need to worry about big unnamed scaries.
ianrandalstrock's Journal ianrandalstrock 2009
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This is the synthesist and electronic percussionist for the band.
Creative Spaces 4: Familiar Faces Sean Craven 2009
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This is the synthesist and electronic percussionist for the band.
Archive 2009-08-09 Sean Craven 2009
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Ashley meanwhile suggests more reasonably that Mandy is simply back performing his historic role as an able synthesist to GB's eye for analytical detail.
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I tend to be a shamelessly utilitarian synthesist when it comes to using critical frameworks, chopping and welding together bits and pieces of ideas from New Criticism's close readings, post-colonial insecurities about national identity, and even the occasional foray into *gasp* Marxist theory which I don't normally like, but is occasionally interesting when examining social power structures in Fantasy and Sci-Fi and using whatever seems handy for the story in question.
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I tend to be a shamelessly utilitarian synthesist when it comes to using critical frameworks, chopping and welding together bits and pieces of ideas from New Criticism's close readings, post-colonial insecurities about national identity, and even the occasional foray into *gasp* Marxist theory which I don't normally like, but is occasionally interesting when examining social power structures in Fantasy and Sci-Fi and using whatever seems handy for the story in question.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Proof that I am an intellectual magpie hopelessly derivative an amazing synthesist – a blog post that brings together two of my many favorite Fretmarks posts – Facts and Figures and It must be the weather.
Elephants 2007
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Proof that I am an intellectual magpie hopelessly derivative an amazing synthesist – a blog post that brings together two of my many favorite Fretmarks posts – Facts and Figures and It must be the weather.
Elephants 2007
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A key issue was the quality of the synthesist on the team.
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