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Harmonize   /hˈɑrmənˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Harmonize  v. t.  
1.
To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
2.
(Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.


Harmonize  v. i.  (past & past part. harmonized; pres. part. harmonizing)  
1.
To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
2.
To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
3.
To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Harmonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... it has been gradually forced upwards by eager pilgrims to her shrine of adjustable pearls, is a secret hidden in her own heart. Like Willy Wally Astor, she finds the customs of this country too crass to harmonize with her supersensitive soul, and spends much time dangling about the titled slobs "on the other side." Some time ago she purchased the epicene young Earl of Craven as husband for her daughter, in the humble hope ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... though it by no means slavishly follows it. It was required to obtain a house suited in all respects to modern requirements, including such things as sash-windows, and in places plate-glass. These hardly harmonize with the ordinary character of English country-houses of the Elizabethan and Queen Anne types, with their many mullioned windows and lead-glazed casements, nor is the other extreme of heavy Classic with ponderous ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 • Various
... dust; the reddish, molded stone, the hewn, yellowish, porous tuff; the dark, polished porphyry, gleaming with moisture, and the living, tiny, silvery jet of water: material and colors harmonize rather well. ...
— Mogens and Other Stories - Mogens; The Plague At Bergamo; There Should Have Been Roses; Mrs. Fonss • Jens Peter Jacobsen
... It is difficult to harmonize all these conflicting elements. In a translation of Plato what may be termed the interests of the Greek and English are often at war with one another. In framing the English sentence we are insensibly ...
— Charmides • Plato
... bore the tray of sandwiches high overhead, for his style in waiting was florid, though polished. He walked with a faint, shuffling suggestion of a prance, a lissome pomposity adopted in obedience to the art-sense within him which bade him harmonize himself with occasions of state and fashion. His manner was the super-supreme expression of graciousness, but the graciousness was innocent, being but an affectation and nothing inward—for inwardly Genesis was humble. He was only pretending to be the kind of waiter ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington


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