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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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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

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

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

I remember when the New Yorker magazine, run out of things to say about the show, began to serialize James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in the space usually reserved for brief reviews of current shows.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2010

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

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

The former wife of Jeff Bezos is unspooling an 80,000-word novel in serialized form after a decade away from publishing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

Early in his TV career, his purring voice and enchanting grin helped transform a string of coffee commercials into a serialized love story.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

The law leads to angry protests and inspires Harriet Beecher Stowe to write a serialized novel that will become Uncle Tom's Cabin.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

But serializing the story would have torn its delicate fabric and diluted its tension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 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

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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