Chime

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  • noun. An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.
  • noun. A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument.
  • noun. A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.
  • noun. The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.
  • noun. Agreement; accord.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To sound with a harmonious ring when struck.
  • intransitive verb. To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.
  • intransitive verb. To be in agreement or accord: harmonize.
  • intransitive verb. To produce (music) by striking bells.
  • intransitive verb. To strike (a bell) to produce music.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To signal or make known by chiming.
  • intransitive verb. To call, send, or welcome by chiming.
  • intransitive verb. To repeat insistently.
  • phrasal verb. To interrupt the speech of others, especially with an unwanted opinion.
  • phrasal verb. To join in harmoniously.
  • phrasal verb. To go together harmoniously; agree.
  • noun. The rim of a cask.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To ring as a bell; jingle; jangle.
  • To ring as bells in unison; sound in consonance, rhythm, or harmony; give out harmonious sounds; accord.
  • To agree; suit; harmonize: absolutely or with with.
  • To cause to sound harmoniously, as a set of bells; strike with or move to measure.
  • To utter harmoniously; recite with rhythmical flow.
  • noun. The edge or brim of a cask or tub, formed by the ends of the staves projecting beyond the head or bottom.
  • noun. In ship-building, that part of the waterway or thick plank at the side left above the deck and hollowed out to form a watercourse.
  • noun. A cymbal; probably also a bell.
  • noun. A set of bells (regularly five to twelve) tuned to a musical scale: called chimes, or a chime of bells.
  • noun. The harmonious sound of bells, or (rarely) of musical instruments.
  • noun. An arrangement of bells and strikers in an organ, musical box, clock, etc.
  • noun. Correspondence of sounds in general; rarely, proportion or harmonious relation: as, chimes of “verses,”
  • Nautical, to make a chime or chimb in.
  • To announce, indicate, summon, or bring about by chiming or stroke of bell: as, to chime (or strike) some particular hour; to chime one to sleep, or to supper, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  • intransitive verb. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  • noun. See chine, n., 3.
  • noun. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
  • intransitive verb. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
  • intransitive verb. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
  • intransitive verb. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
  • intransitive verb. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. An individual ringing component of such a set.
  • noun. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
  • noun. The sound of such an instrument or device.
  • noun. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
  • verb. To make the sound of a chime.
  • verb. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  • cross-reference
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    go  sound  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dime  Grime  Lyme  Time  anticrime  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beep  bell  cadence  chant  chiming  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    chine  
    verb-form
    chimed  chimes  chiming