Coordinate
verb
To organize different things or people to work properly together.
She coordinated all the departments to work towards the same goal
Often appears as...
- coordinate efforts
- coordinate activities
adjective
Working well together, or look good together.
Their outfits were perfectly coordinated
Often appears as...
- coordinated approach
- coordinated effort
noun
Each pair of numbers giving the position of a point in a plane by reference to two fixed lines, the axes.
The point P has coordinates (2, 3)
Often appears as...
- coordinate plane
- coordinate system
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Academic
verb
To be equal in rank or importance.
The human resources department coordinates with the finance department
Often appears as...
- coordinate with
- coordinate between
verb
To organize different things or people to work properly together.
She coordinated all the departments to work towards the same goal
Often appears as...
- coordinate efforts
- coordinate activities
adjective
Working well together, or look good together.
Their outfits were perfectly coordinated
Often appears as...
- coordinated approach
- coordinated effort
noun
Each pair of numbers giving the position of a point in a plane by reference to two fixed lines, the axes.
The point P has coordinates (2, 3)
Often appears as...
- coordinate plane
- coordinate system
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To be equal in rank or importance.
The human resources department coordinates with the finance department
Often appears as...
- coordinate with
- coordinate between
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Teamwork Enhancement
Implies improving collaboration among a group for efficiency.
The project manager coordinated the team to meet the tight deadline.
Pro Tip 2/3Leadership Action
Suggests a person is in charge of aligning efforts.
A supervisor must coordinate the staff's tasks during a shift.
Pro Tip 3/3Action Plan
Used for establishing a strategic way to achieve a goal.
To coordinate relief efforts, we drafted a comprehensive action plan.
Pro Tip 1/3Teamwork Enhancement
Implies improving collaboration among a group for efficiency.
The project manager coordinated the team to meet the tight deadline.
Pro Tip 2/3Leadership Action
Suggests a person is in charge of aligning efforts.
A supervisor must coordinate the staff's tasks during a shift.
Pro Tip 3/3Action Plan
Used for establishing a strategic way to achieve a goal.
To coordinate relief efforts, we drafted a comprehensive action plan.
Pro Tip 1/3Teamwork Enhancement
Implies improving collaboration among a group for efficiency.
The project manager coordinated the team to meet the tight deadline.
Pro Tip 2/3Leadership Action
Suggests a person is in charge of aligning efforts.
A supervisor must coordinate the staff's tasks during a shift.
Pro Tip 3/3Action Plan
Used for establishing a strategic way to achieve a goal.
To coordinate relief efforts, we drafted a comprehensive action plan.
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How language shapes the...
and it does so in a variety of ways. So language can have big effects, like we saw with space and time, where people can lay out space and time in completely different coordinate frames from each other. Language can also have really deep effects -- that's what we saw with the case of number.
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How does your body know...
it increases the production of vasopressin and noradrenaline throughout the brain, which help control our sleep cycles. At about 10 am, the body's rising temperature drives up our energy and alertness, and later in the afternoon, it also improves our muscle activity and coordination.
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Why the insect brain is...
An insect's brain lets it perceive the world through sight and smell. It also chooses suitable mates, remembers locations of food sources and hives, regulates communication, and even coordinates navigation over huge distances. And this vast diversity of behaviors
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Brain 101 PIPE National...
It carries signals to the other parts of the brain and to the spinal cord. The cerebellum is responsible for coordinating muscle movements, particularly those that help maintain the body's balance and posture. The third region, the brainstem,
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
As it grows and continues to release estrogen, this hormone not only helps coordinate growth and preparation of the uterus, it also communicates to the brain how well the follicle is developing. When the estrogen level is high enough,
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Killer whale society PIPE...
cooperation coordination collaboration killer whales are highly social species who exhibit complex group interactions with in hierarchical dominant systems that is to say they work together to rear their young to protect their pod
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Army Ants Rampage...
A defence system of soldier ants ready to act at any sign of danger. A digestive system processing piles of food deep inside. Even a coordinated system for dealing with all the waste.
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How Do Goldfish Flirt? PIPE...
these mini currents are picked up by the lateral line of other fish and this helps them swim is a coordinated sure it detects predators to a touch sense a warning shot
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Oxygen’s surprisingly...
but behind the scenes, a huge coordinated effort is playing out. Your vital organs, the gut, brain, bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life
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Incredible Orca Hunt PIPE...
and appears to be protected from any oncoming wave. The matriarch whale, however, has a plan. Working in a coordinated way,
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How language shapes the...
and it does so in a variety of ways. So language can have big effects, like we saw with space and time, where people can lay out space and time in completely different coordinate frames from each other. Language can also have really deep effects -- that's what we saw with the case of number.
Video examples
How does your body know...
it increases the production of vasopressin and noradrenaline throughout the brain, which help control our sleep cycles. At about 10 am, the body's rising temperature drives up our energy and alertness, and later in the afternoon, it also improves our muscle activity and coordination.
Video examples
Why the insect brain is...
An insect's brain lets it perceive the world through sight and smell. It also chooses suitable mates, remembers locations of food sources and hives, regulates communication, and even coordinates navigation over huge distances. And this vast diversity of behaviors
Video examples
Brain 101 PIPE National...
It carries signals to the other parts of the brain and to the spinal cord. The cerebellum is responsible for coordinating muscle movements, particularly those that help maintain the body's balance and posture. The third region, the brainstem,
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
As it grows and continues to release estrogen, this hormone not only helps coordinate growth and preparation of the uterus, it also communicates to the brain how well the follicle is developing. When the estrogen level is high enough,
Video examples
Killer whale society PIPE...
cooperation coordination collaboration killer whales are highly social species who exhibit complex group interactions with in hierarchical dominant systems that is to say they work together to rear their young to protect their pod
Video examples
Army Ants Rampage...
A defence system of soldier ants ready to act at any sign of danger. A digestive system processing piles of food deep inside. Even a coordinated system for dealing with all the waste.
Video examples
How Do Goldfish Flirt? PIPE...
these mini currents are picked up by the lateral line of other fish and this helps them swim is a coordinated sure it detects predators to a touch sense a warning shot
Video examples
Oxygen’s surprisingly...
but behind the scenes, a huge coordinated effort is playing out. Your vital organs, the gut, brain, bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life
Video examples
Incredible Orca Hunt PIPE...
and appears to be protected from any oncoming wave. The matriarch whale, however, has a plan. Working in a coordinated way,
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Adeo Ressi
American Businessman
There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.
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Petr Cech
Czechoslovakian Athlete
I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.
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Fred Ehrsam
American Businessman
To create an open protocol which helps coordinate resources towards a common goal, the resources need to be known at some level in the same way a lot of of data on the web needs to be public for it to be traversable and useful.
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Joe Wicks
British Author
Finger foods can help little ones to explore food at their own pace. They are also great for helping them to develop hand-eye coordination and encouraging them to try out a variety of textures.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
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Dan Lipinski
American Politician
By coordinating with international partners on scientific issues, we strengthen the U.S. scientific enterprise and promote the free exchange of ideas in other nations.
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Austin Seferian-Jenkins
American Athlete
Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.
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AB de Villiers
South African Athlete
I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.
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Sunil Chhetri
I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.
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Julie Benz
American Actress
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
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Adeo Ressi
American Businessman
There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.
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Petr Cech
Czechoslovakian Athlete
I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.
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Fred Ehrsam
American Businessman
To create an open protocol which helps coordinate resources towards a common goal, the resources need to be known at some level in the same way a lot of of data on the web needs to be public for it to be traversable and useful.
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Joe Wicks
British Author
Finger foods can help little ones to explore food at their own pace. They are also great for helping them to develop hand-eye coordination and encouraging them to try out a variety of textures.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
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Dan Lipinski
American Politician
By coordinating with international partners on scientific issues, we strengthen the U.S. scientific enterprise and promote the free exchange of ideas in other nations.
Quote examples
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
American Athlete
Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.
Quote examples
AB de Villiers
South African Athlete
I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.
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Sunil Chhetri
I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.
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Julie Benz
American Actress
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
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