📖 S — The English dictionary · page 127

sympathise — Everyday, meaning 1: To sympathise is to feel sorry for someone who is in trouble or sad.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sympathise with someone is to understand how they feel and be on their side.↗ Example: I sympathise with you about the lost dog.↗ · The friend sympathised very much with him.↗ · We sympathise with the family who lost their home.↗

sympathize — Everyday, meaning 1: To sympathize is to feel for someone in trouble, or to understand their feelings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sympathize with an idea is to support it.↗ Example: The policeman sympathized with the old man.↗ · No one sympathized with his little plan.↗ · We sympathize with you quite as much.↗

sympathy — Everyday, meaning 1: Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone who is sad, hurt or in trouble, and showing that you care.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sympathy can mean agreeing with or supporting someone's ideas or side.↗ e.g. I have some sympathy with his view.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) «Sympathies» are the kind words you send when someone has died: «with deepest sympathy».↗ Example: I felt great sympathy for Sam when his dog died.↗ · We sent Mrs Jones a sympathy card.↗ · The children showed sympathy for the new girl who was lonely.↗ · He got no sympathy from his sister when he complained.↗ · I have some sympathy with your idea.↗ · Please accept our deepest sympathy.↗ · But Jupiter had little sympathy for him.↗

symphony — Everyday, meaning 1: A symphony is a long piece of music for a full orchestra, usually in three or four parts called movements.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A symphony is also an orchestra that plays such music.↗ e.g. "the London Symphony Orchestra" or just "the symphony" (US).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A symphony of something is a rich mixture of things that go well together.↗ e.g. "a symphony of colours".↗ Example: We listened to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in music class.↗ · Haydn wrote more than a hundred symphonies.↗ · The symphony orchestra has strings, woodwind, brass and percussion.↗ · The first movement of the symphony was fast and loud.↗ · The forest at dawn was a symphony of birdsong.↗ · My aunt took me to the symphony for my birthday.↗ · The kitchen smelled like a symphony of spices.↗

symptom — Everyday, meaning 1: A sign of an illness that a person feels or notices, like a fever, cough or headache.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sign that something bad exists.↗ e.g. Litter is a symptom of a careless town.↗ Example: A runny nose is a symptom of a cold.↗ · Tell the doctor about all your symptoms.↗ · Fever and a rash are symptoms of chickenpox.↗ · His symptoms got better after a day in bed.↗ · If you have symptoms of an allergy, tell an adult straight away.↗ · Long queues are a symptom of too few staff.↗

synagogue — Everyday, meaning 1: A synagogue is a building where Jewish people meet to pray, study and gather as a community.↗ Example: The family walks to the synagogue on Saturday.↗ · The rabbi read from the Torah in the synagogue.↗ · Our class visited a synagogue in RE.↗ · The synagogue has a beautiful stained-glass window.↗ · A bar mitzvah takes place in a synagogue.↗ · Jewish people gather at the synagogue for festivals.↗ · We learned the names of different places of worship.↗

sync — Everyday, meaning 1: To sync means to make two things happen at exactly the same time, or to make devices share the same, up-to-date information.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In sync means happening together at the same time or speed; out of sync means not matching.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) If people are in sync, they agree or get on well and think alike.↗ Example: My tablet syncs my photos to the cloud.↗ · The dancers moved perfectly in sync.↗ · The sound in the video was out of sync with the lips.↗ · We synced our watches before the race.↗ · She and her best friend are always in sync.↗ · Kids made a lip-sync video for the talent show.↗

synchronisation — Everyday, meaning 1: Synchronisation is making things happen at exactly the same time or speed, like clocks showing the same time or dancers moving together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (technology) Synchronisation, often called syncing, is keeping information the same on two devices, such as a phone and a computer.↗ Example: The dancers' synchronisation was perfect.↗ · Synchronisation keeps the photos the same on my phone and tablet.↗ · Synchronised swimmers practise their synchronisation for hours.↗ · The film's sound synchronisation was off, so the voices were late.↗ · Train timetables need synchronisation of station clocks.↗ · Fireflies in some forests flash in synchronisation.↗

syndrome — Everyday, meaning 1: A medical condition that is a group of signs and problems that happen together, often named after the doctor who described it.↗ e.g. "Down syndrome".↗ Example: My cousin has Down syndrome and loves to dance.↗ · A syndrome is a set of signs that happen together.↗ · Doctors gave the condition the name of a syndrome.↗ · People with a syndrome are just as important as everyone else.↗ · She is learning more about her brother's syndrome.↗ · Every syndrome has its own name and its own signs.↗

synonym — Everyday, meaning 1: A word that means the same or almost the same as another word, like «big» and «large», or «quick» and «fast».↗ Example: «Happy» is a synonym for «glad».↗ · Can you find a synonym for «big»?↗ · «Sum», «total» and «altogether» are synonyms in maths problems.↗ · Use a thesaurus to find synonyms.↗ · «Begin» and «start» are synonyms.↗ · The opposite of a synonym is an antonym.↗ · «Tiny» is a synonym for «very small».↗ · Gedniah, is a synonym of Chesed, the Fourth Sephira.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

synonymous — Everyday, meaning 1: Synonymous words have the same or nearly the same meaning, like "big" and "large".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If one thing is synonymous with another, people think of them together because they are so closely connected, as in "Paris is synonymous with romance".↗ Example: "Happy" and "glad" are synonymous.↗ · Finland is almost synonymous with saunas.↗ · The name Einstein is synonymous with genius.↗ · In maths, "add" and "plus" are synonymous.↗ · For my brother, holidays are synonymous with ice cream.↗ · (formal) In this text, "the authorities" and "the police" are synonymous.↗ · These were Orestes and Pylades, whose romantic attachment to each other has made their names synonymous for devoted self-sacrificing friendship.↗ · The Hebrew word for circumcision is Mulah, MULH : note that MLH is also synonymous with DBR, dabar, — verbum or word.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

syntax — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The way words are arranged in a sentence to make it correct.↗ Example: The word סָפַר safar is technically a finite verb, and not a noun as the syntax requires.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

synthesis — Everyday, meaning 1: A synthesis is a mix or combination of different ideas, parts or things into one new whole.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Synthesis is making a substance by joining simpler substances, in nature or in a lab.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Photosynthesis is how plants make their own food from light, water and carbon dioxide.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (music, computers) Sound synthesis is making sounds electronically, and speech synthesis is a computer speaking.↗ Example: Photosynthesis is how plants make food from sunlight.↗ · The report was a synthesis of ideas from many books.↗ · Scientists made the medicine by chemical synthesis.↗ · Our project was a synthesis of art and science.↗ · Speech synthesis lets the computer read stories aloud.↗ · The synthesis of proteins happens inside our cells.↗ · Your essay should be a synthesis, not a copy of one source.↗

synthetic — Everyday, meaning 1: Synthetic means made by people from chemicals or in a factory, not naturally grown or found: synthetic materials such as nylon, polyester and plastic.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Synthetic also means fake or artificial: synthetic flavours, synthetic diamonds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Synthetics are synthetic materials or fabrics.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal, science) Synthetic can mean made by combining parts into a whole (synthesis).↗ Example: Nylon is a synthetic fibre.↗ · My raincoat is made of a synthetic material that keeps water out.↗ · Wool is natural, but polyester is synthetic.↗ · The pitch has synthetic grass, so it never needs mowing.↗ · Synthetic rubber is made from oil.↗ · Synthetic diamonds are made in labs.↗ · Washing synthetics can release tiny plastic bits into the sea.↗

syrian — Everyday, meaning 1: Syrian means from or about Syria, a country in the Middle East, on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Syrian is a person from Syria.↗ Example: She is Syrian and speaks Arabic.↗ · Damascus is the Syrian capital.↗ · A Syrian family moved in next door.↗ · We tried Syrian food at the market.↗ · Many Syrian refugees came to Canada.↗ · The Syrian desert is hot and dry.↗ · Our class learned a Syrian song.↗ · He was born in a Syrian town near the sea.↗ · Accor- ding to some writers Pythagoras was a Greek, according to others, he was either a Phctnician or a Syrian.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

syringe — Everyday, meaning 1: A tube with a plunger, used to suck up and push out liquid, often with a needle for injections.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A similar tube without a needle, for measuring and giving medicine by mouth.↗ Example: The nurse used a syringe to give me my vaccine.↗ · Mum gave the baby 5 millilitres of medicine with a syringe.↗ · Read the markings on the syringe carefully.↗ · If you find a needle or syringe in the park, don't touch it — tell an adult.↗ · We pushed the plunger to see if air can be squashed.↗ · You can squash air in a syringe, but not water.↗ · Syringes are thrown away in special yellow boxes.↗ · The vet used a syringe to feed the tiny kitten.↗

syrinx — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The syrinx is the voice organ of a bird, deep in its chest where the windpipe splits; it lets birds sing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A syrinx is a set of panpipes, a simple instrument of reed tubes of different lengths that you blow across.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Greek myth) Syrinx was a nymph who, running from the god Pan, was turned into reeds, from which Pan made his pipes.↗ Example: A songbird makes its song with its syrinx.↗ · Some birds can sing two notes at once using their syrinx.↗ · The shepherd played a tune on his syrinx.↗ · Pan made his pipes from the reeds that had been Syrinx.↗ · Rat and Mole heard the far-off music of the pipes.↗ · A syrinx is made of reeds of different lengths.↗

syrup — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick, sweet, sticky liquid made from sugar and water, or from plants, like maple syrup or golden syrup.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A liquid medicine that tastes sweet.↗ e.g. "cough syrup".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To speak in syrup means to talk in a very sweet, smooth way, which may not be sincere.↗ Example: We poured maple syrup on our pancakes.↗ · Golden syrup makes flapjacks sticky.↗ · The doctor gave me a spoonful of cough syrup.↗ · Syrup pours more slowly than water.↗ · Maple syrup comes from the sap of maple trees.↗ · Peaches in syrup are very sweet.↗ · “So, my beauty,” said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup, “you are to see your children walk the plank.”↗

system — Everyday, meaning 1: A system is a group of parts that work together as a whole, like the solar system or the digestive system.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A system is also a planned way of doing something, like a system for tidying the classroom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A system can be a set of rules or ideas that people use, like the number system or a school system.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A computer system is a computer with its programs.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The system can mean the rules and people in charge of a country or organisation.↗ Example: The Sun is at the centre of our solar system.↗ · Your digestive system breaks down food.↗ · We use the metric system to measure in science.↗ · Our class has a system for giving out books.↗ · The computer system crashed, so we couldn't print.↗ · Your immune system fights germs.↗ · The city's bus system is easy to use.↗ · Our number system is based on tens.↗ · A school is a system with many parts.↗ · "It must be some degenerate species," said he; "I do not know it, and it is not mentioned in any system."↗ · We find this very idea in the Pythagorean system.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The system of points in writing Hebrew was not perfected until the seventh century, and even then was not in constant use.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d.↗ 570, who designed it to assist his pupils.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

systematic — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Done in an organized way, following a plan or method.↗ Example: Cajori says:'") "The principle of l)osition in its general and systematic application required a symbol for zero.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗