What's the difference between harmonise and harmonize?

Harmonise


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So in trying to harmonise with the original rather than transcribe every last word of it, certain liberties have been taken.
  • (2) Burmese president Thein Sein wants to "harmonise" the country and make it pure.
  • (3) The three leaders also differ over how to boost the eurozone’s flagging economy, with Hollande and Renzi both broadly backing more investment and greater harmonisation, but Merkel anxious to preserve the bloc’s integrity and above all not undermine its deficit and debt rules.
  • (4) She was also absolutely gorgeous, and we all harmonised really well together.
  • (5) November also saw a new EU commission take charge, with harmonising copyright reform high up on their agenda.
  • (6) A single market with harmonised and simplified rules and duties should theoretically make life simpler for small traders such as Violet and Mary.
  • (7) "Even though [this kind of discussion] is constantly managed and deleted and 'harmonised' – it's there in a way it wasn't before.
  • (8) Latvia’s minister for justice, Dzintars Rasnačs, said : “Today we have moved a great step closer to modernised and harmonised data protection framework for the European Union.” The agreement comes in the last week of Latvia’s presidency of Council of the European Union.
  • (9) Merkel also called for greater harmonisation in regulation of the financial markets across Europe and supported the contested idea of making the European Central Bank in Frankfurt the new supervisor of the eurozone's banking sector.
  • (10) Down in Lloyds branches, where the bank is trying to harmonise employment contracts, staff may also look in amazement at the brainpower devoted to the boss's contract.
  • (11) He has created a modern, environmentally friendly transport system within the city, high-speed rail links with Paris and the east, investment in cutting-edge industries, alongside protection for Bordeaux’s inspiring historical and cultural legacy, and a civilised, harmonising approach towards religious and sexual minorities.
  • (12) The quality, safety and efficacy requirements have been harmonised, as have certain aspects of procedures for marketing authorisation or for manufacture.
  • (13) This budget would have its own revenues (for instance a common financial transaction tax, as well as a small portion of a harmonised corporate tax) and would provide for borrowing on that basis.
  • (14) On an 'EU harmonised basis', prices were flat year-on-year.
  • (15) This was billed originally as something largely apolitical: an attempt to harmonise rules and regulations in the US and the EU so there were fewer barriers to trade.
  • (16) The commission said it would come up with more initiatives by the summer, including an attempt to revive discussion about harmonising the corporate tax base in the EU, a perennial taboo for many national governments, including Ireland and Britain.
  • (17) Assuming that the leaders of the leave campaign would conduct the exit negotiations with the EU, we would be leaving the single market and would no longer have any formal legal obligation to harmonise our laws with that of the EU.
  • (18) What's needed is harmonised systems and procedures across the EU.
  • (19) The media regulator said that there was a "strong case" for "harmonising" the current mismatch in TV ad regulations between non-PSB and PSB broadcasters.
  • (20) Its member states have already lifted some internal customs barriers and harmonised others for the outside world.

Harmonize


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
  • (v. i.) To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
  • (v. i.) To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.
  • (v. t.) To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
  • (v. t.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
  • (2) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
  • (3) In the case of the pressure time-derivative the significant harmonic content is shifted toward higher frequencies.
  • (4) The discrimination of the fundamental frequency (fo) of pairs of complex tones with no common harmonics is worse than the discrimination of fo for tones with all harmonics in common.
  • (5) The distribution half-life was 6.6 min and the elimination half-life was 39.0 min (harmonic means).
  • (6) When the coupling evolution was followed in the same subject, it did not appear for all locomotor frequencies but only for locomotor periods close to harmonics of respiratory ones (absolute coordination).
  • (7) However, tone phonemes are also comprised of higher harmonics that also may cue tone phonemes.
  • (8) The teeth developing in teratoma are not comparable to the normal process which is harmonized when the formation and the distribution of the various parts are concerned.
  • (9) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.
  • (10) The reproducibility and precision of results could be further improved by harmonizing the future distributions of reagents.
  • (11) The three-dimensional spatial distribution of filaments was studied with the aid of small-angle second-harmonic scattering, and the filaments were found to permeate the tendon cross-section in an apparently random fashion.
  • (12) Increased training is required for the professional persons involved, and a broad selection of therapeutic proposals should be offered to all of the families concerned, harmonizing with various instances particularly social and health authorities and the police and legal authorities.
  • (13) Backbone atoms tend to be more nearly harmonic than sidechain atoms.
  • (14) The elimination half-life of each metabolite was short, with harmonic mean values of 1.29, 0.98 and 0.92 hr for PCHP, trans-PPC and cis-PPC, respectively.
  • (15) Of the alternating-current components, only the fundamental is important at high frequencies, the higher harmonics being relatively more attenuated.
  • (16) The harmonic mean half-life was 7.4 hours after both treatments.
  • (17) We propose a second-order harmonic model to describe circadian periodicity in the 24-h cycle of microfilarial counts.
  • (18) However, regulatory variations have largely been removed within politically and geographically similar regions (e.g., the U.S.A., the European Community, the Nordic countries) and there now appears to be a consensus regarding the value of harmonizing international requirements.
  • (19) A number of other characteristic harmonic behaviors were also observed.
  • (20) Both tones were based on a five-component harmonic series.

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