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English

Alternative forms

• synchronise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunkhroníz?).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s??.k??.na??z/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.k??.na?z/

Verb

synchronize (third-person singular simple present synchronizes, present participle synchronizing, simple past and past participle synchronized)

1. (transitive) To cause two or more events or actions to happen at exactly the same time or same rate, or in a time-coordinated way.
   1. (intransitive) To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
      • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, Philosophy of Roman History

        The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity.

   2. (transitive) To cause (video and audio) to play in a coordinated way.
2. (transitive) To set (a clock or watch) to display the same time as another.

   We synchronized our watches and agreed to meet at four o'clock precisely.

3. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.
4. (intransitive, of inanimate entities) To agree, be coordinated with, or complement well.
5. (transitive) To coordinate or combine.

Derived terms

Related terms

• SMIL

Translations

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klæp?b??(?)d/, /?klæb?(?)d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klæb(?)?d/
• Hyphenation: clap?board

Noun

clapboard (countable and uncountable, plural clapboards)

1. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
2. (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
3. (archaic, Britain) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

Synonyms

• weatherboard

Translations

Verb

clapboard (third-person singular simple present clapboards, present participle clapboarding, simple past and past participle clapboarded)

1. To cover with clapboards.

See also

• Clapboard (architecture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• clapboard at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

clap +? board

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæp?b??(?)d/

Noun

clapboard (plural clapboards)

1. (film) A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.

Synonyms

• (film): clapper board, clapstick, slate, slate board, sync slate, sticks, board, marker

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