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sync en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /sɪŋk/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clipping of synchronization.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable, usually) Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.
  2. (informal, uncountable, usually) Harmony.
  3. (countable, informal, usually) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
    • The 2008 animation Waltz With Bashir was the first in a series of screen commissions and syncs that has made him a fixture of pop culture, marrying his exquisite melancholy to the saccharine and spectacular. 2024 September 4, Jazz Monroe, “Max Richter on the Music That Made Him”, in Pitchfork:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
synch alternative lexicographic
syncs Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

syncword · V-sync · off sync · on sync · in sync · multisync · out of sync · lip-sync · lip sync · composite sync · sync on green

sync en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /sɪŋk/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clipping of synchronization.

Meanings

  1. (informal) To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
    • Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
    • He synced his phone to the laptop to transfer data about the field trip.
  2. (informal) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
synch alternative lexicographic
syncs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
synched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
synched Tense=Past lexicographic
synching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
syncing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sunk Tense=Past humorous lexicographic
sunk Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part humorous lexicographic
synced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
synced Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

sync up