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/tʃaɪm/ Listen

noun

Chimb n. (Written also chime) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

Chime n. See Chine, n., 3.

Chime n.

1.

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. "Instruments that made melodius chime."

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."

3.

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse."

verb

Chime v. i. (past & past part. chimed; pres. part. chiming)

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."

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.

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."

2.

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. "Chime his childish verse."

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Etymology of 'Chime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chime" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the chime which Antwerp cathedral clock plays at half-hours. The tune has been haunting me ever since, as tunes will. You dress, eat, drink, walk and talk to yourself to their tune: their inaudible jingle accompanies you all day: you read the sentences of the paper to their rhythm. ...

— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray

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— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes

... St. Michael's struck two, then it chimed the quarter after and almost on the chime Phyl sat up. It was as though she had suddenly come to a resolve. She clasped her hands together for a moment, then she rose, gathered up the letters and put them away, all except one which she held in her hand as though to give ...

— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row! the stream runs fast, The rapids are ...

— The Story of Isaac Brock - Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 • Walter R. Nursey

... intermitted game anew. It was a lovely sight to see Those fair ones, as they played, While fragrant robes were floating free, And bracelets clashing in their glee A pleasant tinkling made. The anklet's chime, the Koil's cry With music filled the place, As 'twere some city in the sky; Which heavenly minstrels grace. With each voluptuous art they strove To win the tenant of the grove, And with their graceful ...

— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

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