chime
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈtʃaɪm/
chime (plural chimes)
- (musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- Sylvia had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.
- Hugo was a chime player in the school orchestra.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.
- alarm
- bell
- buzz
- buzzer
- carillon
- clapper
- curfew
- dinger
- ding-dong
- glockenspiel
- gong
- peal
- ringer
- siren
- tintinnabulum
- tocsin
- toll
- vesper
- Russian: колоко́льчик
- Russian: колоко́льчик
- Spanish: campanilla
- Russian: звон
- Russian: молото́к
chime (chimes, present participle chiming; past and past participle chimed)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
- I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- Chime his childish verse.
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
- Everything chimed in with such a humor.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- French: carillonner
- German: läuten
- Russian: звене́ть
- Spanish: tañer
- German: übereinstimmen
- Portuguese: combinar
- Russian: соотве́тствовать
- Spanish: coincidir
chime (plural chimes)
- Alternative form of chine#English|chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
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