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Definition: HARMONIZING |
HARMONIZINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Harmonize |
Date "HARMONIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Crosswords: HARMONIZING |
| English words defined with "HARMONIZING": Henotic ♦ matched ♦ Scumbling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vitaphone No. 1044: Harmonizing Songs (1930) Harmonizing (1930) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dudes harmonizing in back room of beer parlor. Birney, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Poland | The process of harmonizing Polish laws and regulations to those of the EU is driving much of Poland's current economic agenda. (references) |
Czech Rep | On January 1, 2001, a new labor code entered into force, harmonizing domestic rules with EU. A standard work week has 40 hours. (references) | |
Kenya | The EAC's objectives include harmonizing tariffs and customs regimes, free movement of people, and improving regional infrastructures. (references) | |
Political Economy | FINLAND | Finland has in most cases completed the process of harmonizing its technical standards to EU norms. (references) |
DENMARK | Denmark has implemented the EU trademark directive aimed at harmonizing EU member countries' legislation. (references) | |
Uk | An important EU issue is the prospect of harmonizing direct taxation policies among member states, as in the recent case of savings withholding tax. (references) | |
Political Rights | Moldova | On May 10, Parliament appointed a special commission to work on harmonizing laws between Gagauzia and the rest of the country; however, the special commission has experienced conflict and has been largely ineffective. (references) |
Trade | Netherlands | The EU is to harmonizing excise taxes. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | UEMOA is in the process of harmonizing customs regulations and business law and practices among its members. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HARMONIZING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "HARMONIZING" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
harmonizing four | 4 |
harmonizing | 3 |
code harmonizing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HARMONIZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 谐调 (harmonise, harmonised, harmonize, harmonized). (various references) | ||||
German | harmonisierend, harmonierend. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | egyeztetés (agreement, checking, checking up, collation, conciliation, coordination, correlation, reconciliation, syncretism). (various references) | ||||
Korean | "합. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | armonizinghay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HARMONIZING": disharmonizing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HARMONIZING" (pronounced hÄ"rmunī'zing) |
| 7 | -m u n ī' z i ng | dehumanizing, demonizing, humanizing, womanizing. |
| 6 | -u n ī' z i ng | antagonizing, galvanizing, immunizing, ionizing, organizing, patronizing, reorganizing, revolutionizing, scrutinizing, unionizing. |
| 5 | -n ī' z i ng | fraternizing, ironizing, modernizing, recognizing. |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, analyzing, apologizing, appetizing, authorizing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, categorizing, centralizing, characterizing, colorizing, commercializing, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, generalizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, improvising, industrializing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, penalizing, personalizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, revitalizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, securitizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-z" | |
-1 letter: romanizing. | |
-3 letters: hominian, ignorami, inarming, minoring. | |
-4 letters: amorini, harming, horning, ingrain, ironing, moaning, morning, origami, raining, rhizoma, roaming, zingani, zingano, zingari, zingaro. | |
-5 letters: aiming, airing, amnion, arming, haring, harmin, hazing, hiring, homing, honing, mahzor, margin, mazing, mignon, mining, minion, miring, mohair, moirai, morgan, naming, nomina, oaring, onagri, origan, origin, razing, riming, zinnia, zoning. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-z" | |
+3 letters: disharmonizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 52 4D 4F 4E 49 5A 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. -- --- -. .. --.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01010010 01001101 01001111 01001110 01001001 01011010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A R M O N I Z I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0052 004D 004F 004E 0049 005A 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4235524749484360434841 |
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