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NOUN (1)

1. a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument;
[syn: chime, bell, gong]


VERB (1)

1. emit a sound;
- Example: "bells and gongs chimed"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chime \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] Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving. [1913 Webster] 3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. --Cowley [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chime \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 Webster] Chime his childish verse. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chimb \Chimb\ (ch[imac]m), n. [AS. cim, in cimst[=a]n base of a pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f.] The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [Written also chime.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chime \Chime\ (ch[imac]m), n. [See Chimb.] See Chine, n., 3. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chime \Chime\ (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 made melodius chime. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

chime n 1: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong] v 1: emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"