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serialize

American  
[seer-ee-uh-lahyz] / ˈsɪər i əˌlaɪz /
especially British, serialise

verb (used with object)

  • serializes,
    present (3rd person singular)
  • serialized,
    past participle,  past
  • serializing
    present participle
  1. to publish in serial form.

  2. to broadcast, televise, or film in serial form.


serialize British  
/ ˈsɪərɪəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to publish or present in the form of a serial

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of serialize

First recorded in 1890–95; serial + -ize


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Even the plays’ length is turned to good effect in a format that allows you to serialize the experience.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021

In 1967, a few months after the notable African-American writer Samuel Delany won a Nebula Award, he wrote to Analog magazine, seeking to serialize a daring, experimental space opera he had written, called “Nova.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020

The idea is that for certain sensitive actions, the CPU will serialize those instructions to make certain that they run in order.

From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2018

He wants to bring Hazel back to the big city, where he plans to serialize her story for his daily rag, The Morning Star.

From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 9, 2012

Some of them with great travail wrote, like the rest, the sort of trash that the newspapers serialize.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan

In alternating chapters, the staff of the Little Review, an experimental literary magazine in New York, serializes the novel despite growing resistance from the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2014

That may be," he granted, "but it is not fiction and nothing serializes but fiction.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

“We have deactivated the certificates for the stolen items and notified marketplace partners so they can be on the lookout for rare and serialized items,” PSA said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It also helped show that an animated kids series can tackle weighty themes such as war, genocide, imperialism, sexism, propaganda and political corruption in a serialized story and be a hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

This month, Scott announced that she would be publishing an 80,000-word serialized novel for free on Substack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“The Forsytes” is a clunky visual feast, but it’s also a new hot dish in an expanding buffet of eat-the-rich takes that materializes what one imagines a serialized adaptation of Gentlemen’s Quarterly would look like.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026

I switch on the television, rotate the channel dial through the four channels, and settle on a serialized show called All My Children.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Kirkland plans to continue into 2023, starting on May 3 and running until Nov. 6, the date of the last letter, and is also thinking of serializing other classic novels.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

TikTokers dangle tantalizing bits of stories in front of viewers with caveats of "like for part 2" or by serializing their content.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022

Still, not long before he died at age 61 in 1971, he managed one last major coup by serializing an epic novel about a desert planet called Arrakis, Frank Herbert’s “Dune.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2018

Of course, if selectively serializing instructions doesn’t work, we’re going to have to serialize everything, which will dramatically slow down modern processors.

From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2018

Gordon's Monthly was serializing the novel in America.

From A Great Man A Frolic by Arnold Bennett

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