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sync up

sync up verb: to synchronize.

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To synchronize.
    • Many people believe in menstrual synchrony, the idea that women's menstrual periods sometimes sync up when they work closely together, but the scientific methodology for confirming its existence remains weaker than many assume.
    • They asked us to sync up our proposed conference dates and submit our answer by next Tuesday.
    1. (ambitransitive, informal, transitive) To synchronize (footage) so that the audio and video components play together in correct alignment.
      • You could tell that the video and the audio hadn't been synced up properly, so watching the movie was kind of annoying.

Forms of sync up

third-person singular presentsyncs up
present participlesyncing up
present participlesynching up
past participlesynced up
pastsynced up
past participlesynched up
pastsynched up
alternative formsynch up

Questions about sync up

What does sync up mean?
Sync up means to synchronize.
What part of speech is sync up?
Sync up is a verb.
What is the past tense of sync up?
The past tense of sync up is synced up.

Words near sync up in the dictionary

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

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