Chime
[tʃaɪm]
Definition
(noun.) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument.
(verb.) emit a sound; 'bells and gongs chimed'.
Checked by Basil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) See Chine, n., 3.
(n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
(n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
(n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
(n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
(n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
(v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
(v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Consonance, harmony, correspondence of sound.
v. n. Harmonize, accord, sound in harmony.
Typist: Miguel
Definition
n. the harmonious sound of bells or other musical instruments: agreement of sound or of relation: harmony: (pl.) a set of bells.—v.i. to sound in harmony: to jingle: to accord or agree: to rhyme.—v.t. to strike or cause to sound in harmony: to say words over mechanically.—Chime in to join in in agreement; Chime in with to agree or fall in with.
n. the rim formed by the ends of the staves of a cask: (naut.) a hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
Editor: Luke
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of Christmas chimes, denotes fair prospects for business men and farmers. For the young, happy anticipations fulfilled. Ordinary chimes, denotes some small anxiety will soon be displaced by news of distant friends.
Edited by Hilda
Examples
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How I should chime in with their manners over there! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her singing was less remarkable, but also well trained, and sweet to hear as a chime perfectly in tune. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Let it chime for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The chime mechanism is sometimes so constructed that it may be played like a piano, but with the fist instead of the fingers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It struck twelve--I waited till the time-piece had concluded its silver chime, and the clock its hoarse, vibrating stroke, and then I proceeded. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If your inclinations chime with your sense of duty--' Harry began. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- How do Chimes Strike the Hour? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Not an atom,' chimes in Brewer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Do the chimes of the distant church bells lead one to the house of worship? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighboring clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Pickwick had meditated himself into a doze, when he was roused by the chimes of the neighbouring church ringing out the hour--half-past eleven. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Light broke, movement gathered, chimes pealed--to what was I coming? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr Riderhood very slowly and hoarsely chimed in, with several retrospective nods of his head. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And stand a gallon of beer down,' chimed in Mr. Simpson. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr Riderhood chimed in, as before. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a simple sentence--very artlessly, a little timidly, pronounced; but it chimed in harmony to the youth's nature. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Married already, Mrs. Bute chimed in; and both sate with clasped hands looking from each other at their victim. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The minds of the two girls being toned in harmony often chimed very sweetly together. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I cannot possibly countenance any such inconsistent proceeding, chimed in the Dowager Ingram. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Merle