chime
1 (chīm)
[From Middle English chimbe (belle), from Old French, variant of cimble, cymbal, from Latin cymbalum; see cymbal.]
noun
- An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.
- Music A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument. Often used in the plural.
- A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.
- The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.
- Agreement; accord: a flawless chime of romance and reality.
verb: chimed, chim·ing, chimes.
intransitive verb
- To sound with a harmonious ring when struck.
- To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.
- To be in agreement or accord: harmonize: Their views chimed with ours. The seafood and wine chimed perfectly.
transitive verb
- To produce (music) by striking bells.
- To strike (a bell) to produce music.
- To signal or make known by chiming: The clock chimed noon.
- To call, send, or welcome by chiming.
- To repeat insistently.
phrasal verbs
- chime in
- To interrupt the speech of others, especially with an unwanted opinion.
- To join in harmoniously.
- To go together harmoniously; agree.
derivatives
- chiḿer
- noun
chime
2 (chīm)
[Middle English chimb, from Old English cim-, cimb- (in cimstānas, bases of a pillar) (and cimbing, jointing).]
noun
- The rim of a cask.
