to harmonize
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4.2
- verb
- /ˈhɑːrmənaɪz/
- Specialized
:
armonizar
- Students can learn to harmonize and improvise by ear as part of each day's warm-up period.
- harmonizing instruments
- harmonized ensembles
- attempting to harmonize
And so my family grew up harmonizing, singing gospel, things like that.
- And so my family grew up harmonizing, singing gospel, things like that.
- They need to quite literally harmonize to Harmo Chonta, right?
- No, I sing like a phrase of that and harmonize with Lily.
- And so my argument is that sometimes the tiniest little amount might be what that person needs to kind of harmonize the orchestra.
- Well, on the first note, BI harmonized it with a minor second below it, which made it want to expand.
- Evelyn Glenny, A percussionist, saying, like, let me figure out if I could harmonize Bach on a snare drum.
- You see how it all harmonize it together and then the chorus.
Examples
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When the Andrews sisters harmonize the last notes, we stop and look at one another.
Fiction book (1991) -
And so my family grew up harmonizing, singing gospel, things like that.
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We can hear a song and find our part and harmonize with it.
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No, I sing like a phrase of that and harmonize with Lily.
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I like it when you harmonize with me on the whistling.
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Let me tell you guys, Ari tries to harmonize with rap songs.
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I sang as though born to it that day, harmonizing alongside Val.
Fiction book (1999) -
Community gatherings as simple and symbolic as singing together blend and harmonize the many different voices of a community.
Academic text (2005) -
Michael Henry and Justin Robinett share the same piano while harmonizing alongside each other.
Blog text (18) -
The choir will harmonize beautifully during the concert next weekend.
Synonyms
Play or sing together in harmony
To make notes or voices sound together in harmony
Change which parts or instruments play the notes in a chord to make a different sound
Antonyms
How Harmonious
- Specialized
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6.8
- Specialized
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4.2
255
2.3
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4.6
30
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Harmonize comes from an old Greek root harmon- meaning 'to fit together' and is the same root as harmony. So to harmonize musical notes is to make them 'fit together' and sound good at the same time.