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Meaning of CHIME

Pronunciation:  chIm

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer
  2. [v]  of bells, chimes, and gongs
 
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 Synonyms: bell, gong
 
 See Also: barge in, break in, butt in, carillon, chime in, chisel in, cut in, go, handbell, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, put in, sound

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Chime\, n. [See {Chimb}.]
See {Chine}, n., 3.

  2. \Chime\, n. [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble,
in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr.
Gr. ?. See {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.

  3. \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chimed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Chiming}.] [See {Chime}, n.]
1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; 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

  4. \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.
 
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