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chime (chīm) noun

1. An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound.

2. Often chimes Music. A set of bells tuned to scale and used as an orchestral instrument.

3. A single bell, as in the mechanism of a clock.

4. The sound produced by or as if by a bell or bells.

5. Agreement; accord: a flawless chime of romance and reality.

verb

chimed, chiming, chimes

 

verb, intransitive

1. a. To sound with a harmonious ring when struck. b. To make a musical sound by striking a bell or set of bells.

2. To be in agreement or accord: harmonize: Their views chimed with ours. The seafood and wine chimed perfectly.

verb, transitive

1. To produce (music) by striking bells.

2. To strike (a bell) to produce music.

3. a. To signal or make known by chiming: The clock chimed noon. b. To call, send, or welcome by chiming.

4. To repeat insistently.

phrasal verb.

chime in

1. To interrupt the speech of others, especially with an unwanted opinion.

2. To join in harmoniously.

3. To go together harmoniously; agree.

 

 

[From Middle English chimbe (belle), from Old French, variant of cimble, cymbal, from Latin cymbalum. See cymbal.]

chimʹer noun