Meaning

2 senses

  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.

More definitions
  • make synchronous and adjust in time or manner

Examples

23 sentences

  1. We're in sync.

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  2. We're not in sync yet.

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  3. Tom and Mary were in perfect sync.

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  4. Vladimir and Anna lip-synced karaoke together.

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  5. The picture and sound are out of sync.

    ruКартинка и звук рассинхронизированы. — marafon

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Origin

Clipping of synchronization.

Clipping of synchronization.

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Forms

syncs, syncing, synced, synced
Base formsync · to sync
3rd person singularsyncs
Present participlesyncing
Past simplesynced / synched / sunk
Past participlesynced / synched

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysync
he, she, itsyncs

Past simpleLesson

all personssynced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave synced
he, she, ithas synced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sync

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsync up

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
symptomB1symptomaticC1synagoguesynchronizationsynchronizesyncopatesyncopation
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