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• n  an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
• n  (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments

• Composers and performers turn on to the synthesizer The athletes in Chariots of Fire jogged along the beach to its inspirited pulse, and Jennifer Beals went head over heels.
• Over a pulsing synthesizer, a ticking clock, a rumbling timpani and countless other perfectly calibrated whirs and beeps, Madonna declares, "I don't like cities, but I like New .
• The synthesizer began to challenge the electric guitar for the top of the instrumental rock pile.

• synthesist
• synthesiser

News & Articles

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• Tomorrow’s Belmont Entries
  All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6 fur(T); $50,000; clm($35,000); 3upPN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 a-Hebert Hall(L),122J Lezcano1-6-10Jacobson7-22 Best Actor(L),122R Maragh9-3-5Toscano12-13 Luigi P ,122A Lezcano7-6-8Bizelia30-14 Valediction(L),122J Alvarado11-6-1Asmssen4-15 Synthesizer(L),122L Saez7-1-7Bond6-16 Alcomatch(L),121J Rosario2-4-5Jacobson5-17 Radiohead(L),122D ...
  June 6, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Craig Venter in msnbc.com
  This is the first synthetic cell that's been made,said Venter. "We call it synthetic because the cell is totally derived from a synthetic chromosome, made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information...
• Joe Zawinul in FOXNews
  There is no difference between a Stradivarius or a beautiful synthesizer sound,Zawinul told Jazziz magazine earlier this year. "People make a big mistake in putting down electronic music. Yes, it's been misused and abused, but that's true...
• Alex Kapranos in Reuters
  There's a little bit more synthesizer, a little bit more bass, but it's really Franz Ferdinand,lead singer Alex Kapranos told Reuters before a gig featuring the new music at a record store in central London.