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sync

/sɪŋk/

sync noun: harmony. Also the clipping of synchronization or synchrony.

Noun

sync (usually uncountable, plural syncs)

  1. (informal, usually) Harmony.
  2. (countable, informal, usually) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
    • The 2008 animation Waltz With Bashir was the first in a series of screen commissions and syncs that has made him a fixture of pop culture, marrying his exquisite melancholy to the saccharine and spectacular.2024 September 4, Jazz Monroe, “Max Richter on the Music That Made Him”, in Pitchfork

Verb

sync (third-person singular simple present syncs, present participle syncing or synching, simple past and past participle synced or synched or (humorous) sunk)

  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.

Also used as

sync is also the clipping of synchronization or synchrony.

sync meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sync in Hindi

सिंक करें, समक्रमित करें, सिंक करना

sync in Tamil

ஒத்திசைவு, ஒத்திசை, ஒத்திசைக்கவும்

sync in Marathi

समक्रमित करा, सिंक करा

sync in Urdu

مطابقت پذیری کریں, سنک کریں, مطابقت پذیر کریں
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sync in Bengali
সিঙ্ক করুন, সিঙ্ক, সিঙ্ক করা
sync in Telugu
సమకాలీకరించండి, సమకాలీకరించు, సమకాలీకరించుము
sync in Malayalam
സമന്വയിപ്പിക്കുക, സമന്വയം ചെയ്യുക, സമന്വയിപ്പിക്കുവാൻ
sync in Kannada
ಸಿಂಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ, ಸಿಂಕ್, ಸಿಂಕ್ ಮಾಡಲು
sync in Punjabi
ਸਿੰਕ ਕਰੋ, ਸਿੰਕ, ਸਿੰਕ ਕਰਨਾ
sync in Gujarati
સમન્વય કરો, સુમેળ કરો, સમન્વયિત કરો
sync in Odia
ସିଙ୍କ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ
sync in Nepali
सिङ्क गर्नुहोस्, सिन्क गर्नुहोस्, सिंक गर्नुहोस्

Examples of sync in a sentence

  • Debbie lip synced the theme song to All In The Family.
  • The two recordings aren't synced up well enough to get rid of that flutter.
  • They asked us to sync up our proposed conference dates and submit our answer by next Tuesday.

All 32 example sentences with sync

Forms of sync

Noun
pluralsyncs
alternative formsynch
Verb
third-person singular presentsyncs
present participlesyncing
present participlesynching
past participlesynced
pastsynced
past participlesynched
pastsynched
past participle (humorous)sunk
past (humorous)sunk

Origin of sync

Clipping of synchronization.

Words formed from sync

Words that rhyme with sync

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Questions about sync

What does sync mean?
Sync means harmony.
What is sync in Hindi?
Sync in Hindi is सिंक करें, समक्रमित करें, सिंक करना. See Sync meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sync?
Sync can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sync?
Sync is pronounced /sɪŋk/.
What is the plural of sync?
The plural of sync is syncs.

Words near sync in the dictionary

  1. synbranchids
  2. synbranchiform
  3. synbranchiforms
  4. synbranchoid
  5. synbranchoids
  6. sync
  7. sync on green
  8. sync up
  9. syncarid
  10. syncarids
  11. syncarp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sync (page history and authors); sync (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sync (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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