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1Chime — Contents 1 Musical instrument or tone 2 Popular culture 3 Other 4 …
2chime — Synonyms and related words: accord, accordance, agree, agreement, alliterate, alliteration, announce, answer to, articulate, assent, assonance, assonate, assort with, atone, attune, attunement, battery, be consistent, be harmonious, be in tune,… …
3chime — I. n. 1. Consonance, harmony, correspondence of sound. 2. Set of chimed bells, chime of bells. 3. Ringing of the chimes or of a chime. II. v. n. Harmonize, accord, sound in harmony …
4chime — chime1 [chīm] n. [ME chimbe, cimble < OFr < L cymbalum, CYMBAL] 1. a contrivance for striking a bell or set of bells 2. [usually pl.] a) a set of bells tuned to a musical scale b) a similar set of metal tubes, hung vertically and struck… …
5Chime — (ch[imac]m), n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky mbalon. See {Cymbal}.] 1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. [1913 Webster] Instruments that… …
6Chime — 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. [1913 Webster] And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. [1913… …
7Chime — Chime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chimed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chiming}.] [See {Chime}, n.] 1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells. [1913 Webster] 2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. [1913 Webster]… …
8chime — c.1300, from L. cymbalum (see CYMBAL (Cf. cymbal), which is what this word originally meant), perhaps through O.Fr. chimbe or directly from L. as O.E. cimbal, either one likely misinterpreted as chymbe bellen chime bells, a sense attested from… …
9Chime (bell instrument) — A carillon like instrument with fewer than 23 bells is called a chime. American chimes usually have one to one and a half diatonic octaves. Many chimes play an automated piece of music. Prior to 1900, chime bells typically lacked dynamic… …
10chime — chime1 chimer, n. /chuym/, n., v., chimed, chiming. n. 1. an apparatus for striking a bell so as to produce a musical sound, as one at the front door of a house by which visitors announce their presence. 2. Often, chimes. a. a set of bells or of… …
