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Meaning of sync in English

(Definition of sync from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of sync

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I hear that there is a system known as "pulse sound in syncs", which may make this possible.
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The app syncs viewing with friends who can watch shows and chat together in real time, no matter where they are.
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The settings's official timeline syncs up with our own, so that a normal campaign would be set in 2005 or 2006.
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The duo have also built a light-system that syncs with everything.
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Automatically syncs bookmarks each time the browser is closed.
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He finally confesses that he lip syncs because he has stage fright.
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The contact book does not only show the contacts that users stored before, but it also syncs contacts from those social networking the users use.
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Ultimately, it syncs all of media regardless of file formats, folders, settings and allows users to not worry about file quality loss or cloud storage capacity.
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Considered together, however, these various events point to a gravitational force, instantiated in multiple and diverse forms, that exerts censoring pressure largely in sync with government ideology.
Over time, labor became wedded to a solution that was increasingly out of sync with the economic realities of the workplace in an era of large-scale economic restructuring.
The device syncs to the user's smartphone.
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We need to take precisely the considered approach that she suggests, making sure that the exam boards are working in sync.
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Under the new proposals it would be one and three-quarter hours out of sync with the sun time.
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Clause 8 deals with commencement and is at present out of sync.
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Are we now to consider only interest rates; that is, is it when interest rates converge that we shall think we are in sync?
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Translations of sync

in Chinese (Traditional)
(synchronization的非正式說法), (synchronize的非正式說法), (兩台電子設備之間)同步(更新最新的資訊和文檔)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(synchronization的非正式说法), (synchronize的非正式说法), (两台电子设备之间)同步(更新最新的信息和文件)…
in Spanish
sincronización, sincronizar, estar sincronizado…
in Portuguese
sincronização, sincronia, sincronizar…
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