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[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.
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2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to
correspond; to fall in with.
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Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving.
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3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed
by in or in with. [Colloq.]
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4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in
rhyming. --Cowley
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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.
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And chime their sounding hammers. --Dryden.
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2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
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Chime his childish verse. --Byron.
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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.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Chime \Chime\ (ch[imac]m), n. [See Chimb.]
See Chine, n., 3.
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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.
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Instruments that made melodius chime. --Milton.
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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.
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We have heard the chimes at midnight. --Shak.
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3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
"Chimes of verse." --Cowley.
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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"