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What (who) is chime - definition
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Bar chime; Chime (disambiguation); CHIME; Chime bell; Chime (album)
chime
(chimes, chiming, chimed)
1.
When a bell or a clock chimes, it makes ringing sounds.
He heard the front doorbell chime.
...as the Guildhall clock chimed three o'clock.
...a mahogany chiming clock.
VERB: V, V n, V-ing
2.
A chime is a ringing sound made by a bell, especially when it is part of a clock.
The ceremony started as the chimes of midnight struck.
N-COUNT
3.
Chimes are a set of small objects which make a ringing sound when they are blown by the wind.
...the haunting sound of the wind chimes.
N-PLURAL: usu supp N
chime
chime1
¦ noun
1. a bell or a metal bar or tube tuned and used in a set to produce melodious ringing sounds when struck.
a sound made by such an instrument.
2. Bell-ringing a stroke of the clapper against one or both sides of a scarcely moving bell.
¦ verb
1. (of a bell or clock) make chimes.
2. (chime with) Brit. be in agreement with.
3. (chime in) interject a remark.
Derivatives
chimer noun
Origin
ME (in the senses 'cymbal' and 'ring out'): prob. from OE cimbal (see cymbal), later interpreted as chime bell.
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chime2
(also chimb)
¦ noun the projecting rim at the end of a cask.
Origin
ME: prob. from an OE word related to Du. kim and Ger. Kimme; cf. chine3.
chime
v. (d; intr.) to chime into ('to join in') (she always chimes into a conversation)
Examples of use of chime
1. Chairman, Chime Communications It‘s an incomprehensible strategy.
2. Politicians and candidates were quick to chime in.
3. The bells for last orders will still chime as one.
4. It‘s a community that seems serene, with just a wind chime breaking the silence.
5. But we need to show that our values chime with the values of modern Britain.