Harmonize

Definitions: Harmonize

Harmonize

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.

Date "harmonize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
European Union	Bring into or be in harmony with. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Harmonize

Synonyms: accord (v), agree (v), chord (v), concord (v), consort (v), fit in (v), harmonise (v), reconcile (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: harmonise (european union).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agreement	Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate.
	Render accordant; Adjective: fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust; (render, equal); dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize,. reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square.
Concord	Verb: agree; accord, harmonize with; fraternize; be -concordant; Adjective: go hand in hand; run parallel; (concur); understand one another, pull together; (cooperate); put up one's horses together, sing in chorus.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Harmonize

English words defined with "harmonize": blend, blend in ♦ Coordinate, Crotalus mitchellii ♦ fit ♦ go, Gradate ♦ Harmonizing ♦ key ♦ match ♦ speckled rattlesnake ♦ To go with. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Change Your Tune and End the Career Blues: Strategies to Harmonize Work and Lifestyle Goals (reference) Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing: Is It Possible to Harmonize Customs and Tax Rules (Series on International Taxation, 28) (reference) Learn To Harmonize And Transpose (reference) Melodies to Harmonize With (reference) Middle Management in Schools: How to Harmonize Managing and Teaching for an Effective School (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Music to Harmonize the Aura (reference) Harmonize or Haunt (reference) Teenage Shutdown: Jump, Jive and Harmonize (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The Czech Republic's anticipated integration with EU requires that Czech transport harmonize with European structure in terms of infrastructure, speed and tariffs. (references)
		Thus, the need to harmonize with the security levels among different systems, guarantee the service levels, and control the potential vulnerability in real time, demands 24x7 vigilance. (references)
		The Slovak Government approved a new Telecommunication Policy document (Resolution No.98/1995) in December 1995. The intentions of the State Telecommunications Policy are to harmonize the telecom sector with EU trends and create conditions for the fulfillment of the Slovak Republic's obligations in the field of telecommunications that arise from the Association Agreement between the EU and Slovakia. (references)
Economic History	Kenya	Efforts have been made to harmonize investment regimes and investment incentives in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. (references)
	Cyprus	The intense effort to harmonize the Cypriot economy with that of the EU in recent years is making the Cypriot market place more open and more competitive. (references)
	Italy	Italy is subject to single market directives mandated by the European Union, which are intended to harmonize many regulatory structures across EU countries. (references)
Human Rights	Malaysia	In 1997 the Government announced that it would harmonize Islamic law at the federal level and appoint an Islamic law federal attorney general. (references)
	Mexico	The working groups also are expected to develop proposals for reparations to victims and their families and to harmonize domestic legislation with international human rights obligations. (references)
	Georgia	A number of amendments sought to harmonize the Criminal Procedures Code with the new Criminal Code; however, several amendments significantly weakened protections against arbitrary arrest and detention. (references)
Political Economy	Cyprus	The Government's target remains to harmonize completely with the EU by January 1, 2003. (references)
	BULGARIA	Bulgaria is making an effort to harmonize its national standards with international standards. (references)
	INDIA	Where differences exist, India is seeking to harmonize national standards with international norms. (references)
Trade	Tanzania	Arrangements are underway to harmonize these tariffs. (references)
	Netherlands	The EU is seeking to harmonize the range of VAT rates among the 15 EU member nations. (references)
	Austria	Efforts are underway to harmonize EU labeling and marking requirements along with quality and safety standards. (references)
Worker Rights	Czech Republic	The situation had improved at year's end, and the Government worked to harmonize its standards with those of the EU. In 2000 the number of industrial accidents declined 3.2 percent to 92,906 from 95,971 in 1999; year-end statistics reflected that the number of industrial accidents remained constant during the year. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dick Van Dyke	Those guys found me in a Starbucks one morning and said, we understand you like to harmonize, and I said, I sure do. And we've been together for about two years now.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Zachary Taylor	1849-1850	I shall look with confidence to the enlightened patriotism of that body to adopt such measures of conciliation as may harmonize conflicting interests and tend to perpetuate that Union which should be the paramount object of our hopes and affections.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Harmonize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.00% of the time. "Harmonize" is used about 50 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 (infinitive)	86%	43	52,181
Lexical Verb (base form)	14%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	50	N/A

Expression using "harmonize": harmonize with. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "harmonize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		harmonizoj (attune, integrate, match), harmonizohem (pull together). (various references)

Arabic		‏وفق بين (accommodate, conciliate), ‏توافق (adjustable, adjustment, agree, agreement, chime, coincide, coincidence, concord, correspond, correspondence, harmonization, harmony, hit it off with smb., reconcile, work in with), ‏إنسجم (blend, chime, concord, consort, correspond, get along with, mesh, square, tone), ‏أتلف (blend). (various references)

Bulgarian		съгласувам (accord, cohere, piece together, proportion, proportionate, quadrate, reconcile, suit, work in), свиря в хармония, хармонизирам, аранжирам (arrange, score, set), привеждам в хармония, подхождам си, пея в хармония. (various references)

Chinese		調 (melody, mode, reconcile, to move, to transfer, tone, tune), 谐调 (harmonise, harmonised, harmonized, Harmonizing), 燮 (harmony), �" (cooperate, to assist, to help, to join). (various references)

Czech		harmonovat, harmonizovat, sladit (adjust, coordinate, season with sugar, sugar, syntonize), ladit (debug, tune up), dát do souladu. (various references)

Danish		stemme overens (accord, agree, fit together). (various references)

Dutch		harmoniëren (accord, fit together). (various references)

Esperanto		harmonii (fit together). (various references)

Farsi		موافق کردن , متناسب بودن , هم اهنگ کردن (Attune, Coordinate), هم اهنگ شدن . (various references)

Finnish		sointua yhteen (chime in, tone in well with), olla sopusoinnussa (be in harmony, be in keeping). (various references)

French		harmoniser (harmonise). (various references)

German		harmonisieren (coordinate, harmonise), harmonieren (go together, match, tone, tone in). (various references)

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

Hebrew		לתאם (accord, agree, coordinate, correlate, gibe, match, tally), לעשות ל�"רמו� י, ל�"תמז�' (blend, coalesce, incorporate, integrate, merge, mingle, mix), ל�"רמן. (various references)

Hungarian		kiegyenlít (balance, clear off, compensate, equalize, equate, even, level, offset, pay, pay off, to accommodate, to acquit, to equalize, to equate, to equilibrate, to even, to iron out, to level off, to level out, to liquidate, to make good, to make square, to make up, to offset, to pay off, to reconcile, wipe out), jól megfér, összhangban van (correspond, to accord, to chime in with, to chime together, to hang together, to harmonize), összhangba hoz (conciliate, coordinate with, to conciliate, to coordinate, to co-ordinate, to reconcile, to square, to tune). (various references)

Indonesian		menyetimbangkan, mengakurkan (check, reconcile). (various references)

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

Japanese Kanji		ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halfback, halftime, halfway house, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ハーモナイズ . (various references)

Korean		�"합하십시�" (harmonise). (various references)

Manx		jannoo rere y cheilley, jannoo bingyssagh, freggyrt ry-cheilley, cur rere y cheilley, cheet ry-cheilley (amalgamate, club, come together, confluence, congress, converge, focusing, get together, herd, mix, tally). (various references)

Papiamen		harmonisá (accord, fit together), armonisá (accord, fit together). (various references)

Pig Latin		armonizehay

Portuguese		harmonizar (accommodate, accord, adjust, agree, arrange, atone, attune, blend, chime, compose, compromise, conciliate, proportionable, reconcile, salve, straighten out, suit), harmônio, estaremharmonia, conciliar (arrange, attemper, conciliate, placate, reconcile, to conciliate persons, to reconcile). (various references)

Romanian		se armoniza (chime, consort, tone), pune de acord (accord, agree, attune, Square), fi armonios, concilia (conciliate, reconcile, tally), armoniza (conform). (various references)

Russian		согласовывать (accord, agree to by, attune, bring into accord, co-ordinate, correlate, dovetail, make agreed to, time, understood and agreed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		harmonizovati (sync, synch), uskladiti (agree, coordinate, key, tone). (various references)

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

Swedish		harmonisera, harmoniera (accord, chime, consort, fit together). (various references)

Turkish		uyum sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate oneself, accord, blend, coordinate, fall with, orient oneself, orientate oneself, settle, shake down, slot into, suit, yield), uymak (abide by, accommodate oneself, accord, adapt, agree, answer, assort, become, chime, chime in with, coincide, comply, comply with, comport, conform, consist, consort, correlate, correspond, defer, do, do for, fall with, fit, follow, gear, go, go together, go with, keep, keep to, match, mate, obey, observe, pertain, quadrate, respect, sort together, Square, square with, string along with, suit, tally, tally with, tone, work in with), bağdaxma (accord, fit together), akord etmek, ahenkli olmak. (various references)

Ukranian		гармоніювати (accord, assort, cohere, consort with, fall in with, go well together, tune), гармонізувати, настроювати (adjust, attune, bias, control, string, syntonize, tone, tune). (various references)

Welsh		cysoni (reconcile), cynganeddu (form cynghanedd), cydgordio (agree). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	congruam, congruit, consona. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "harmonize": harmonized, harmonizer, harmonizers, harmonizes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "harmonize": disharmonize. (additional references)
	Words containing "harmonize": disharmonized, disharmonizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Harmonize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: armonize, harminize, harmoni, Hermodice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "harmonize" (pronounced hÄ"rmunī'z)
5	-m u n ī' z	aluminize, demonize, humanize, womanize.
4	-u n ī' z	agonize, antagonize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, disorganize, euthanize, galvanize, hellenize, homogenize, ionize, lionize, mechanize, organize, patronize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize.
3	-n ī' z	fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-z"
	-1 letter: romanize.
	-2 letters: harmine, menorah, moraine, rhizoma, rhizome, romaine.
	-3 letters: airmen, anomie, enamor, haemin, harmin, hazier, hermai, hernia, heroin, homier, mahzor, marine, mazier, menhir, merino, moaner, mohair, remain, zanier.
	-4 letters: aimer, amine, amino, amnio, anime, azine, enorm, harem, hazer, hemin, herma, heron, homer, honer, ihram, inarm, irone, mahoe, maize, manor, mazer, minae, miner, minor, mirza, mizen, moira, moire, monie, morae, namer, nizam, noria, ramen, ramie, reman, rhino, roman, zaire, ziram, zoner.
	-5 letters: aeon, aero, ahem, airn, amen, amie, amin, amir, azon, earn, emir, haem, haen, hair, hame, hare, harm, haze, hear, heir, herm, hern, hero, hire, hoar, hoer, home, hone, hora, horn, inro, iron, izar, main, mair, mane, mano, mare, maze, mean, meno, mien, mina, mine, mire, moan, mora, more, morn, name, naoi, nazi, near, nema, noir, noma, nome, nori, norm, ohia, omen, omer, rain, rami, rani, raze, ream, rein, rhea, rime, roam, roan, zein, zero, zoea, zone, zori.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-z"
	+1 letter: harmonized, harmonizer, harmonizes.
	+2 letters: harmonizers.
	+3 letters: disharmonize.
	+4 letters: disharmonized, disharmonizes.
	+5 letters: chlorpromazine, thermalization.
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