chime
1
(ch
m)
KEY
NOUN:
- An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.
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Music
A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument. Often used in the plural.
- A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.
- The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.
- Agreement; accord:
a flawless chime of romance and reality.
VERB:
chimed
,
chim·ing
,
chimes
VERB:
intr.
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- To sound with a harmonious ring when struck.
- To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.
- To be in agreement or accord: harmonize:
Their views chimed with ours. The seafood and wine chimed perfectly.
VERB:
tr.
- To produce (music) by striking bells.
- To strike (a bell) to produce music.
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- To signal or make known by chiming:
The clock chimed noon.
- To call, send, or welcome by chiming.
- To repeat insistently.
PHRASAL VERB:
chime in
- To interrupt the speech of others, especially with an unwanted opinion.
- To join in harmoniously.
- To go together harmoniously; agree.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English
chimbe (belle), from Old French, variant of
cimble,
cymbal, from Latin
cymbalum ; see
cymbal
OTHER FORMS:
chim
er
(Noun)
