different between assent vs harmonize

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: ascent

Etymology

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

Verb

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.

   • And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

Synonyms

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

Related terms

Translations

Noun

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

Synonyms

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

Related terms

• assentor

Translations

Anagrams

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

Latin

Verb

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ass?

English

Alternative forms

• harmonise (British)

Etymology

From French harmoniser.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?na?z/

Verb

harmonize (third-person singular simple present harmonizes, present participle harmonizing, simple past and past participle harmonized)

1. (intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.
2. (intransitive, music) To play or sing in harmony.
3. (transitive, music) To provide parts to.
4. (transitive) To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible.
5. (transitive) To provide the harmony for a melody.

Related terms

• harmonization

Translations

Anagrams

• Horezmian

Portuguese

Verb

harmonize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of harmonizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of harmonizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of harmonizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of harmonizar