Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
synthesizer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
- noun (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments
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Examples
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His piece "Beta-Globin DNA" for Fairlight synthesiser is the best known work, but DNA sequences turned up in some of his other electronic and acoustic works.
The Song Is You Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesiser, which is made by Speech Plus.
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I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesiser, which is made by Speech Plus.
June 2010 2010
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I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesiser, which is made by Speech Plus.
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When he says 'synthesiser', replace it with 'browser' in your mind, and think about it for a moment:
Planet Mozilla 2010
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When he says 'synthesiser', replace it with 'browser' in your mind, and think about it for a moment:
Planet Mozilla 2010
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"I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesiser, which is made by Speech Plus.
Dontcom 2008
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The detuning by a quarter·tone in one piccolo, clarinet, trumpet and synthesiser enabled a more accurate realisation of the harmonic series.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011
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The detuning by a quarter·tone in one piccolo, clarinet, trumpet and synthesiser enabled a more accurate realisation of the harmonic series.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011
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As was the case with Bryan Robson's shoulder, which popped its way dispiritingly through the late-1980s, sound-tracking the decade as clearly as any plunking Roland synthesiser, the temptation is now there to become wrapped up with Carroll's lager tally, to assume a condition of relentless ambient anxiety over the state of his ongoing lager thirst.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay 2011
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