sync

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Etymology

Clipping of synchronization.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪŋk/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk
  • Homophones: sink, cinque, synch, zinc

Noun

sync (usually uncountable, plural syncs) (informal)

  1. Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.
  2. Harmony.
  3. (music, countable) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
    • 2024 September 4, Jazz Monroe, “Max Richter on the Music That Made Him”, in Pitchfork‎[1], archived from the original on 31 July 2026:
      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.

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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, computing) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

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