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Harmonise

Definitions: Harmonise

Harmonise

Verb

1. Go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded".

2. Write a harmony for.

3. Sing in harmony.

4. Bring into consonance or relate harmoniously; "harmonize the different interests".

5. Bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities".

6. Bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "harmonise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Harmonise

DomainDefinitions

European Union

Bring into or be in harmony with. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

Coordination or balancing of plans, activities, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Harmonise

Synonyms: accord (v), agree (v), chord (v), concord (v), consort (v), fit in (v), harmonize (v), reconcile (v). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: harmonize (european union), match (public administration), reconcile, v..

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Crosswords: Harmonise

Specialty definitions using "harmonise": European Card for Substantially Handicapped PersonsMadocSpheres. (references)

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Use in Literature: Harmonise

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

And Mr. Weston tried, in vain, to make them harmonise better.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Harmonise

"Harmonise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.28% of the time. "Harmonise" is used about 72 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)90.28%6541,645
Lexical Verb (base form)9.72%7133,076
                    Total100.00%72N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Harmonise

Language Translations for "harmonise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

谐调 (harmonised, harmonize, harmonized, Harmonizing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

harmoniseren (harmonize), afstemmen (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, match, mount, place, reconcile, reject, to respond to ..., tune, verify). (various references)

   

French

  

harmoniser (harmonize). (various references)

   

German

  

harmonisieren (coordinate, harmonize). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εναρμονίζω (arrange, co-ordinate, harmonize, square with). (various references)

   

Italian

  

armonizzare (attune, blend, harmonize, key, match, tone). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"합하십시" (harmonize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armonisehay

   

Spanish

  

armonizar (attune, blend, go together, harmonize, match). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Harmonise

Derivations

Words beginning with "harmonise": harmonised, harmonises. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Harmonise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: harmonies.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: harmines, horseman, menorahs, moraines, rhamnose, romaines, romanise.

-2 letters: anomies, enamors, erasion, haemins, harmine, harmins, hernias, heroins, heroism, hoarsen, homines, inshore, marines, menhirs, menorah, merinos, mishear, moaners, mohairs, moraine, oarsmen, remains, romaine, seminar, senhora.

-3 letters: ahorse, aimers, airmen, amines, amnios, animes, anomie, ariose, arisen, armies, arseno, arshin, arsine, arsino, ashier, ashmen, ashore, enamor, eonism, haemin, hansom, harems, harmin, hemins, hermai, hernia, heroin, herons, hoarse, homers, homier, honers, hosier, ihrams, inarms, inmesh, inseam, irones, isomer, mahoes, manors, marine, marish, masher, mashie, menhir, merino, mesian, miners, minors, moaner, mohair, moires, monies, monish, mosher, namers, norias, nosher, nosier, ramens, ramies, ramose, ramson, ransom, reason, remain, remans, rhinos, rimose, romans, semina, senhor, senior, senora, sermon, shairn, shiner, shmear, shoran, shrine.

-4 letters: aeons, aimer, airns, amens, amies, amine, amino, amins, amirs, amnio, anime, anise, arise, arose, arson, ashen, earns, emirs, enorm, eosin, haems, hairs, hames, hanse, harem, hares, harms, hears, heirs, hemin, herma, herms, herns, heron, heros, hires, hoars, hoers, hoise, homer, homes, honer, hones, horas, horns, horse, hosen, ihram, inarm, irone, irons, mahoe, mains, mairs, manes, manor, manos, manse, mares, marse, marsh, maser, mason, means, mensa, meson, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, minor, mires, miser, moans, moira, moire, monas, monie, morae, moras, mores, morns, morse, namer, names, nares, naris, nears, nemas, noirs, noise, nomas, nomes, noria, noris, norms, ohias, omens, omers, ornis, osier, rains, raise, ramen, ramie, ranis, reams, reins, reman, resin, rheas, rhino, rimes, rinse, risen, roams, roans, roman, rosin, saner, sarin, senor, serai, serin, shame, share, sharn, shear, shier, shine, shire, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, simar, siren, smear, snare, snore, sonar.

-5 letters: aeon, aero, ahem, aims, ains, airn, airs, amen, amie, amin, amir, amis, anes, anis, ares, arms, arse, earn, ears, emir, eons, eras, erns, eros, haem, haen, haes, hair, hame, hams, hare, harm, hear, heir, hems, hens, herm, hern, hero, hers, hies, hins, hire, hisn, hoar, hoer, hoes, home, hone, hons, hora, horn, hose, inro, ions, ires, iron, maes, main, mair, mane, mano, mans, mare, mars, mash, mean, meno, mesa, mesh, mhos, mien, mina, mine, mire, mirs, mise, miso, moan, moas, mons, mora, more, morn, mors, mosh, name, naoi, naos, near, nema, nims, noes, noir, noma, nome, noms, nori, norm, nose, nosh, oars, ohia, ohms, omen, omer, ones, ores, osar, rain, rami, rams, rani, rase, rash, ream, rein, reis, rems, resh, rhea, rhos, rias, rime, rims, rins, rise, roam, roan, roes, roms, rose, sain, same, sane, sari, seam, sear, semi, sera, sham, shea, shim, shin, shmo, shoe.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: admonisher, harmonised, harmonises, harmonizes, monarchies, nomarchies, rhodamines.

 

+2 letters: admonishers, chloramines, fisherwoman, foremanship, harmonizers, inharmonies, marchioness, misanthrope, semaphoring.

 

+3 letters: apomorphines, chiromancers, chiromancies, chrominances, disharmonies, disharmonize, earthmovings, euchromatins, foremanships, horsemanship, housewarming, hydromancies, malnourished, menorrhagias, misanthropes, nomographies.

 

+4 letters: aeromechanics, commandership, diathermanous, disharmonized, disharmonizes, enantiomorphs, fashionmonger, horsemanships, housewarmings, marchionesses, misanthropies, nitromethanes, normothermias, rhabdomancies, thermostating, thrombokinase.

 

+5 letters: actinomorphies, cholestyramine, cinematographs, commanderships, fashionmongers, harmoniousness, hydromechanics, hydroxylamines, magnetospheric, metamorphosing, monosaccharide, neurochemicals, overenthusiasm, servomechanism, sportfisherman, thermodynamics, thermostatting, thrombokinases, trichomoniases.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Harmonise


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 72 6D 6F 6E 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .-    .-.    --    ---    -.    ..    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#114 &#109 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0072 006D 006F 006E 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

426784798180758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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