CHIME

chime, bell, gong

(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

chime

(verb) emit a sound; “bells and gongs chimed”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

chime (plural chimes)

(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

An individual ringing component of such a set.

A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.

The sound of such an instrument or device.

A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

Synonyms

• alarm

• bell

• buzz

• buzzer

• carillon

• clapper

• curfew

• dinger

• ding-dong

• glockenspiel

• gong

• peal

• ringer

• siren

• tintinnabulum

• tocsin

• toll

• vesper

Verb

chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)

(intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.

(transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

(transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

(intransitive) To agree; to correspond.

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

Etymology 2

Noun

chime (plural chimes)

Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)

Anagrams

• Chiem, chemi-, hemic, miche

Source: Wiktionary

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Chime, n. Etym: [See Chimb.]

Definition: See Chine, n., 3.

Chime, n. Etym: [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. Cymbal.]

1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. Milton.

2. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.

Chime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] Etym: [See Chime, n.]

1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

2. To be in harmony; to agree; to sut; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving.

3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]

4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley

Chime, v. i.

1. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.

2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. Byron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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