Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bring or come into agreement or harmony. See Synonyms at agree.
- v. Music To provide harmony for (a melody).
- v. To be in agreement; be harmonious.
- v. Music To sing or play in harmony.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To be in harmony. In music, to form a concord; agree in sounds or musical effect.
- To agree in sense or purport.
- To agree in sentiment or feeling; be at peace one with another. Synonyms To agree, accord, correspond, tally, square, chime, comport.
- 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.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To be in harmonious agreement.
- v. intransitive, music To play or sing in harmony.
- v. transitive To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible.
- v. transitive To provide the harmony for a melody.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport.
- v. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
- v. To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord.
- v. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
- v. (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.
WordNet 3.0
- v. write a harmony for
- v. go together
- v. bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
- v. bring into consonance or accord
- v. sing or play in harmony
- v. bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously
Etymologies
- harmony + -ize (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Yet the name should harmonize with the spirit of the thing.”
“harmonize" - the term used in explaining why some blogs have been removed from websites - sounds similar to the term for river crab.”
“Days later, the White House released its formal proposal that avoided the issue, proposing instead to "harmonize" regulation instead.”
“Chinese Web users frequently use "harmonize" as a euphemism for censorship.”
The Wall Street Journal: Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship
“And then those two ideas started to kind of harmonize with each other, resonate with each other.”
“The FDA whines we must "harmonize" our laws with the international laws or face terrible consequences, ALL conveniently forgetting”
“* Big Government control over the actions of doctors, who will be required to "harmonize" their medical care to meet new government guidelines.”
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“Why would you think that was a contradiction which we must resist the urge to 'harmonize'?”
“The revamp proposal calls for the SEC and CFTC to "harmonize" its rules and regulations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Schapiro Supports Oversight of Derivatives
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